Quotes

“Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Our minds are hurt more often by overeating than by hunger.” — Petrarch

“In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.”

Kwame Anthony Appiah (via Graham Duncan, The Playing Field)

“There is a strange feeling that one is not yet in real life. For the time being, one is doing this or that… [but] there is always the fantasy that sometime in the future the real thing will come about." - Marie-Louise von Franz

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” — Mahatma Gandhi

CULTURE: from the Latin cultus, which means care.

Daniel Coyle • The Culture Code

What made the hours pass like minutes when you were a child? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.” — Carl Jung

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” — Zora Neale Hurston

"The trouble with modern theories of behaviorism is not that they are wrong but that they could become true, that they actually are the best possible conceptualization of certain obvious trends in modern society."

— Hannah Arendt