Quotes

“We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.”

"If planet earth were to blow up tomorrow morning, the universe would probably keep going about its business as usual. As far as we can tell at this point, human subjectivity would not be missed. Hence any meaning that people inscribe to their lives is just a delusion.”

“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.”

"The essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.”

"Luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”

“Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.”

"People are liberated from suffering not when they experience this or that fleeting pleasure, but rather when they understand the impermanent nature of all their feelings, and stop craving them. "

“Biology enables, Culture forbids.”

"The real root of suffering is this never-ending and pointless pursuit of ephemeral feelings, which causes us to be in a constant state of tension, restlessness and dissatisfaction."

“Consistency is the playground of dull minds.” (Meaning)

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Golf is a game in which you try to put a small ball in a small hole with implements singularly unsuited to the purpose.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the equator.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Land monopoly is not the only monopoly which exists, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

I see [it said that] leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the ... nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.