“One potential remedy for human stupidity is a dose of humility. National, religious and cultural tensions are made worse by the grandiose feeling that my nation, my religion and my culture are the most important in the world – hence my interests should come before the interests of anyone else, or of humankind as a whole. How can we make nations, religions and cultures a bit more realistic and modest about their true place in the world?”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“And he had learned that pity was insatiable—a false virtue that always craved more suffering to show how limitless and magnificent it could be.”
― In the Distance
― In the Distance
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