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“My two main conclusions are that technology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic acts, and that it finds most of its uses after it has been invented, rather than being invented to meet a foreseen need.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.”
Enchiridion • Epictetus“Compare that to a fruit shop adorned with pleasant, lush colors that smell like pomegranate. Compare apples, oranges, cherries, peaches, grapes and melons, and the vivid colors of various vegetables to the butcher shop, the hanging heart and intestines, the severed corpses, the split bellies, the broken legs that hang, and drop blood dripping from it.”
The Benefits of Vegetarianism • Sadegh Hedayat“What we experience in dreams -- assuming that we experience it often -- belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.”
Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.”
Discourses • Epictetus