Yes, he said. But what is the character of the regime? And what are the mistakes which we were saying it contains? First, I said, the very thing that defines the regime is one. Reflect: if a man were to choose pilots of ships in that way — on the basis of property assessments — and wouldn’t entrust one to a poor man, even if he were a more skilled pilot — They would make a poor sailing, he said.
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We only gain merit and psychological development by accepting ourselves as we are and by being serious enough to live the lives we are entrusted with. Our sins and errors and mistakes are necessary to us, otherwise we are deprived of the most precious incentives to development.
There are no mistakes.
The method of learning by trial and error — of learning from our mistakes — seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practiced by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees or by men of science.
Great men may make great mistakes.
