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Biography - Edgar Morin:

Edgar Morin born Edgar Nahoum is a French philosopher and sociologist .
Born: 1921
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

Behind the money lies a whole world of passions; it lies in human psychology.



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French
Derrière l'argent, il y a tout un monde de passions, il y a la psychologie humaine.

German
Hinter dem Geld verbirgt sich eine ganze Welt voller Leidenschaften; es liegt in der menschlichen Psyche.




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Quotes for: passion


Quotes

Quotes about passion:


Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.





All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.





Nothing great has ever been accomplished without passion.





The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.





There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.





To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.











Quotes for: psychology


Quotes

Quotes about psychology:


Psychology, as I understand it, is not only a piece of knowledge but a certain wisdom of life.







Quotes

Quotes for: money


Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.





Money often costs too much.





Silver is worth less than gold, gold less than virtue.





Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master.





For the use of words, and thus of a book, is to point beyond themselves to a world of life and experience that is not mere words or even ideas. Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life.





Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.











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Edgar Morin also said...


The first and fundamental resistance is that of the spirit. It means resisting the intimidation of any lie asserted as truth, the contagion of any collective intoxication.





As soon as an individual takes an action, whatever that action may be, it begins to escape from his intentions.





We have to live and deal with disorder.





We see that a paradigm — that is, the roots of a principle of knowledge — can shed light on certain aspects of reality, while blinding us to others.





Action is decision, a choice, but it is also a wager.












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