Vince McLeod

“For many generations…they obeyed the laws and loved the divine to which they were akin…they reckoned that qualities of character were far more important than their present prosperity. So they bore the burden of their wealth and possessions lightly, and did not let their high standard of living intoxicate them or make them lose their self-control…

But when the divine element in them became weakened…and their human traits became predominant, they ceased to be able to carry their prosperity with moderation.”
― Plato, Timaeus

“Global economic growth will soon clash with physical barriers. It is physically impossible to fulfil the ideal of progressivism: the spread of techno-scientific consumer culture to ten billion people. When this dream has faded, another will emerge.”
― Guillaume Faye, Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-Catastrophic Age

“It looks, Socrates, as though I didn't know what I was talking about then.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“What foolishness makes us tweak the nose of Death continually?”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense