It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.
We live in a world where action is what counts.
It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.
All your acts affect all the people, people that you don't even know. So we have to live with responsibility. We have to live knowing that we're not the only ones here and you're affecting somebody else always.
The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
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