Yangzi

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The fact is, it’s not a deception, but rather a tribute to the amazing abilities of the human imagination. What enables banks – and the entire economy – to survive and flourish is our trust in the future. This trust is the sole backing for most of the money in the world.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Yet in the case of animals such as cattle, sheep and Sapiens, each with a complex world of sensations and emotions, we have to consider how evolutionary success translates into individual experience. In the following chapters we will see time and again how a dramatic increase in the collective power and ostensible success of our species went hand in hand with much individual suffering.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“We live today in the era not of the art of dying, but of the art of saving life,”
― Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter