La mauvaise conscience générale permet à chacun de se gratifier d’une bonne conscience individuelle : ce n’est pas moi qui suis responsable, puisque tout le monde l’est.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

No reference is truly direct ; every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It’s just a question of how implicit it is.

Process isn’t skill.