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“We are here among people who don't contemplate transience and the existence of the soul, the meaning of life and the nature of being. We are in a world in which man, crawling on the earth, tries to dig a few grains of wheat out of the mud just to survive another day.”
― The Shadow of the Sun
― The Shadow of the Sun
“A surrogate activity is an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that the individual pursues for the sake of the “fulfillment” that he gets from pursuing the goal, not because he needs to attain the goal itself. For instance, there is no practical motive for building enormous muscles, hitting a little ball into a hole or acquiring a complete series of postage stamps. Yet many people in our society devote themselves with passion to bodybuilding, golf or stamp-collecting. Some people are more “other-directed” than others, and therefore will more readily attach importance to a surrogate activity simply because the people around them treat it as important or because society tells them it is important. That is why some people get very serious about essentially trivial activities such as sports, or bridge, or chess, or arcane scholarly pursuits, whereas others who are more clear-sighted never see these things as anything but the surrogate activities that they are, and consequently never attach enough importance to them to satisfy their need for the power process in that way.”
― Industrial Society and Its Future
― Industrial Society and Its Future
“acabó pegándose un tiro, porque quién sabe lo que pasa por dentro de nadie cuando decide ser nadie.”
― Juan Belmonte, matador de toros: Su vida y sus hazañas (Libros del Asteroide nº 44)
― Juan Belmonte, matador de toros: Su vida y sus hazañas (Libros del Asteroide nº 44)
“Es algo que suele suceder con los muertos: lamentar no haberles dicho a tiempo cuánto los amabas, lo necesarios que te eran. Cuando alguien imprescindible se va de tu lado, vuelves los ojos a tu interior y no encuentras más que banalidad, porque los vivos, comparados con los muertos, resultamos insoportablemente banales.”
― Mujer de rojo sobre fondo gris
― Mujer de rojo sobre fondo gris
“The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.”
― Industrial Society and Its Future
― Industrial Society and Its Future
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