The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be considered as the commonplace of everyday thinking. … An innate blindness seems to have closed the eyes of this epoch to all but those facts which show life as a phenomenon of utility History as a System
“The heat was beginning to scorch my cheeks; beads of sweat were gathering in my eyebrows. It was just the same sort of heat as at my mother’s funeral, and I had the same disagreeable sensations—especially in my forehead, where all the veins seemed to be bursting through the skin.” Stranger
No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity. Atomic Habits
“When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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