“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free”
― One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
― One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“desire for normality; a longing to adapt to some recognized and general rule; a wish to be like everyone else, from the moment that being different meant being guilty.”
― The Conformist: A Novel
― The Conformist: A Novel
“However, every advance in our knowledge of the cosmos has revealed that we live on a cosmic speck of dust, orbiting a mediocre star in the far suburbs of a common sort of galaxy, among a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. The news of our cosmic unimportance triggers impressive defense mechanisms in the human psyche.”
― Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
― Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
“Everything that will happen will happen...and if you don't get to see it.. It will be because we didn't live long enough”
― Death with Interruptions
― Death with Interruptions
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