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“Religious values tend to be especially deeply held and hence frequent cause of disastrous behaviour. [...] The modern world provides us with abundant secular examples of admirable values to which we cling under conditions where those values no longer make sense [...] It appears to me that much of the rigid opposition to environmental concerns in the First World nowadays involves values acquired early in life and never again reexamined [...].”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond“ "He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw..."”
Metamorphosis and Other Stories • Franz Kafka“If you go around giving a fuck about everything and everyone without conscious thought or choice-well then you’re going to get fucked.”
The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck • Mark Manson“The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.”
Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes“Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again--- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (---that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind---one loses it when one no longer needs it. [Criticism of Darwin's Origin of Species.]”
Twilight of the Idols • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche