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Steven Pinker
“The human mind tends to estimate the probability of an event from the ease with which it can recall examples, and scenes of carnage are more likely to be beamed into our homes and burned into our memories than footage of people dying of old age.1 No matter how small the percentage of violent deaths may be, in absolute numbers there will always be enough of them to fill the evening news, so people’s impressions of violence will be disconnected from the actual proportions.”
Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity

Τίτος Πατρίκιος
“Η ΣΤΙΓΜΗ

Και σκέψου τη στιγμή που ο παλιός σου σύντροφος
εκείνος που έμεινε στο στρατόπεδο τον τετραπλάσιο καιρό
εκείνος που γυρίζοντας δε βρήκε κανέναν να τον περιμένει
εκείνος που σας χώρισαν τα χρόνια και οι τόποι
σου πει: "Μας άφησες, παράτησες την πίστη σου
δε λες πια την αλήθεια".
Τί ν' απαντήσω τότε, τί ν' αποκριθώ;
Πώς πια δεν συμβιβάζονται πίστη και αλήθεια;
Και τι έστιν αλήθεια;
Άραγε τη γνώρισα ποτέ
ή μου την υποβάλλανε διαρκώς παραλλαγμένη
ενθουσιασμοί και φόβοι, θυσίες και υποχωρήσεις,
η πίεση του ταξικού εχθρού, της επανάστασης οι ανάγκες;
Και τώρα; Αναζητάμε τώρα την αλήθεια;
Τολμάμε να την ξεστομίσουμε κι ό,τι βγει;
Όχι μονάχα στου απόδειπνου την ώρα, όταν
σ' αποχαυνώνουν η χώνεψη, του αίματος οι γλυκές επιθυμίες,
όχι μονάχα την ώρα αναπολήσεων άθλων και θανάτων,
μα κάθε στιγμή, μέσα στις λόχμες του έρωτα
μέσα στις στάχτες των όσων κάνουμε και λέμε
μέσα στις νόμιμες απαιτήσεις μιας τρέχουσας ζωής.”
Τίτος Πατρίκιος, Ποιήματα Β'

Charles Darwin
“As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.”
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

José Ortega y Gasset
“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
José Ortega y Gasset

David   Epstein
“In England and Wales, students were expected to pick a path with knowledge only of the limited menu they had been exposed to early in high school. That is sort of like being forced to choose at sixteen whether you want to marry your high school sweetheart. At the time it might seem like a great idea, but the more you experience, the less great that idea looks in hindsight. In England and Wales, adults were more likely to get divorced from the careers they had invested in because they settled down too early.”
David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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