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“the evolution of the world tends to show the absolute importance of the category of the individual apart from the crowd,” that “truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because… the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion.”
When I asked Singer why the late two-thousands were a time of great ferment for applied consequentialism, he cited the Internet: “People will say, ‘I’ve had these ideas since I was a teen-ager, and I thought it was just me,’ and then they got online and found that there were others.”
Gideon Lewis-Kraus • The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism
For this reason, the process of knowing the self should be relentless. It will always be worth asking what is really true of us, for each day we live, we do so with deeper longings for acceptance, and the risk of alienation can cause us to dissociate from the truth of ourselves.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, a... See more
