Quotes
“The greatest trick the devil ever played was making you believe that the pessimists are the good guys.” – Packy McCormick
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"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
— Hannah Arendt
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” - Marcus Aurelius
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
— Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
— Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
Dylan O'Sullivan • Tweet
“We consume, as we produce, without any concrete relatedness to the objects with which we deal; We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.”
— Erich Fromm , “The Sane Society”
Philosophors • The Wisdom Letter #054
“Our minds are hurt more often by overeating than by hunger.” — Petrarch
“We are built with an almost infinite capacity to believe things because the beliefs are advantageous for us to hold, rather than because they are even remotely related to the truth.” – Dee Hock
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I don't know, maybe the real danger "dopamine" poses is the temptation to reduce the whole of human experience to its operation.
LM Sacasas