Quotations from
philosopher Werner Erhard

“One kind of change occurs when you add something. If you take an entity and add something to it, it's changed. Another kind of change
occurs when you take an entity and subtract something from it – so you've got two kinds of changes there. There's a third kind of change
which is very strange – the only kind which I think has any real value – and that is when you take a thing and get it to be itself. You neither
add to it nor subtract from it. This is almost a definition of consciousness for me.” (KQED radio interview, 1975)  {blog 4/2012}

“Life works to the extent that we keep our agreements.”  {blog 11/2013}
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“The thing you have to remember about integrity is [that] it’s a mountain with no top.”  {blog 12/2015}
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“Your life works to the degree [that] you keep your agreements.”  {blog 3/2016}
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“What it takes to be a hero is to be ordinary – petty, small, frightened, timid – without that you've got no chance of being a hero.
What's required is real heroes. You ought to embrace all those deficiencies. That's what you need to be a hero.”- in January 1988  {blog 9/2016}
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“There are no good people. You really don't want to fool yourself. A lot of the people we admire and respect – they're no good either.
Stop living your life like it was possible to be a good person. There are only heroes. Only ordinary people who are dancing
to an opportunity beyond themselves. No good people. Only people like you and me.”  {blog 10/2016}
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“There are no rules. That's the first hundred rules. As for the hundred and first rule, I haven't figured that out yet.”  {blog 2/2017}
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"Life is a game. In order to have a game, something has to be more important than something else. If what already is, is more important than
what isn’t, the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn’t, is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.”  {blog 8/2017}
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“Start building the future through a conversation for possibility.”  {blog 10/2017}
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“It is important that you get clear for yourself that your only access to impacting life is action. The world does not care what you intend,
how committed you are, how you feel, or what you think, and certainly it has no interest in what you want and don’t want. Take a look at life
as it is lived and see for yourself that the world only moves for you when you act.”   {blog 10/2017}
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“Consider that all accomplishment is constituted by a series of resolved breakdowns.”  {blog 5/2018 & 7/2022}
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“In a 'you and me' world, when you are successful, whole, validated, and fulfilled, I win.”  {blog 12/2018}
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“There’s nothing [that] I want people to learn from me. It’s what you discover for yourself that makes it powerful.”  {blog 6/2019}
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“In every human being, there is both garbage and gold. It’s up to us to choose what we pay attention to.”  {blog 10/2022}