Aaron Hatfield

“The life also which here we live hath its own enchantment, through a certain proportion of its own, and a correspondence with all things beautiful here below.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from a conceptual confusion that in turn may be traced back to the contemporary nihilism transmitted on many an academic campus and many an analytical couch.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“The idea that technology alone can solve social and political problems is a dangerous delusion. But the idea that they can be solved without technology is also wrongheaded.”
― Mustafa Suleyman, The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future