“All spontaneous people and men of action are active exactly because they are dim and limited. How can I explain? Here’s how: as a result of their limitations they take the nearest and secondary causes for primary ones, and in this way they are more quickly and easily persuaded than other people that they have found the indisputable basis for their action, and that eases their minds; and that’s the most important thing.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
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