Sublime

“You want to know why people are so fucked up? Son, that’s about the only question I can answer with even a small measure of authority. It’s because they’re people. People, my friend, are worse than anybody.”

at all times ‘professional’ – that is, logical, efficient, straightforward, insensitive to mild insult, responsive to brute command and uninclined to mental breakdown. We are under pressure to forget the difficult truth that we know from personal life: that humans are exhaustingly complex, unpredictable and fragile.

Troisièmement, cultiver la nature humaine. Au cœur de l’économie du XXe siècle se trouve le portrait de l’homme économique rationnel, selon lequel nous sommes égoïstes, isolés, des êtres de calcul, dont les goûts sont immuables et qui dominent la nature

The truth is that man does not live by welfare alone.

Une vie humaine dans nos sociétés contemporaines passe nécessairement par une ou plusieurs périodes de crise, de forte remise en question personnelle. Il est par conséquent normal d'avoir accès, dans le centre-ville d'une grande capitale européenne, à au moins un établissement ouvert toute la nuit. Il

Kant himself, in the second formulation of his categorical imperative, said that everything has its value, but man has his dignity – a human being should never become a means to an end. But already in the economic system of the last few decades, most working people had been turned into mere means, degraded to become mere tools for economic life. It

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.