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Paul Valéry : "The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us".
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... Valéry's definition of hubris ( Fig. 3) is more pro- found and rather paradoxical : "The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us". This definition could apply to disaster situations in general and to the health care sys- tem in ...
