Cody

“If you ignorantly believe there’s not enough life support available on planet Earth for all humanity, then survival only of the fittest seems self-flatteringly to warrant magna-selfishness. However, it is due only to humans’ born state of ignorance and the 99.99-percent invisibility of technological capabilities that they do not recognize the vast abundance of resources available to support all humanity at an omni-high standard of living.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller, Grunch of Giants

“Letters and science will only take their proper place in the work of human development when, freed from all mercenary bondage, they will be exclusively cultivated by those who love them, and for those who love them.”
― Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread

“The labours I endured were no longer to be alleviated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery, which insulted my desolate state, and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione et de Via: Qua Optime in Veram Rerum Cognitionem Dirigitur