Great men, leaders, truth, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and social structure

Those who can say 'this is this' or 'that is that', these are great men.

A true leader understands the folly of followers, and does not lead.

The world is external and therefore demands external (constructive or visible) justifications for our lives.

'Truth' is an abstraction.

From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Phaedrus' 'quality' as related to good and bad: to find if they exist, ask if the world would change if good and bad did not exist; quality exists only in the mind.

Being born into systems (ie. inheriting the social structure), without witnessing the development of such a system, creates confusion.

Why expect greatness from a mediocre world.

The failure of reductionism: the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Excerpted unpublished writings by Jack Haas. Selections from the notebooks 1990-2005. Including early writings, collected quotes, and current installments.

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Great men, leaders, truth, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and social structure