M. GrĂ©goire · @mpjgregoire
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On the other hand, the article reveals that had three wives and countless affairs. Of course one can think deep thoughts while being a scoundrel in personal affairs, but so often our thinking is rationalisation of our personal failings...

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M. GrĂ©goire · @mpjgregoire
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"did not believe that the practical world could be understood by the rational mind alone. He was thus a fierce critic of central planning, of the ability of a government to solve the problems people could not solve themselves. He saw the hideous, self-defeating paradox of trying to change the everyday world from a distance based on a theory."

spectator.co.uk/article/taking



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