Benjamin

“The end result is that there can be no more truth or goodness and no need or even ability to make tough choices. Where the purpose of higher education once was to enable the student to find truth, the modern university teaches that there is no truth, only 'lifestyle.”
― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

“We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.”
― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

“If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior.”
― Robin Skynner

“Life’s great dichotomy is between autotrophs, organisms that can nourish themselves, and heterotrophs, or life forms that must feed on other organisms.”
― Vaclav Smil, Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature