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““In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.””
12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos • Jordan B. Peterson“You want praise from people who kick themselves every fifteen minutes, the approval of people who despise themselves. (Is it a sign of self-respect to regret nearly everything you0 do?) ”
Book VIII • Marcus Aurelius“ "Luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.””
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind • Yuval Noah Harari“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
Autumn Leaves • Andre Gide“And are not the temperate exactly in the same case? They are temperate because they are intemperate—which may seem to be a contradiction, but is nevertheless the sort of thing which happens with this foolish temperance. For there are pleasures which they must have, and are afraid of losing; and therefore they abstain from one class of pleasures because they are overcome by another: and whereas intemperance is defined as "being under the domination of pleasure," they overcome only because they are overcome by pleasure.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato