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“what counts is to be true, and then everything fits in, humanity and simplicity.”
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
“ours is the first era in which it has been possible for people of different
nations to conduct their affairs in a friendly and understanding manner. In the old days, peoples spent their lives fearing and even hating one another because of ignorance on all sides.”
― Querido Profesor Einstein: Correspondencia entre Albert Einstein y los Niños
nations to conduct their affairs in a friendly and understanding manner. In the old days, peoples spent their lives fearing and even hating one another because of ignorance on all sides.”
― Querido Profesor Einstein: Correspondencia entre Albert Einstein y los Niños
“Poverty kept me from thinking all was well under the sun and in history; the sun taught me that history was not everything.”
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
“the notion that we know all there is to know about people and their needs and that all these data are pinned down exactly and fully explained by the market, the state, sociological surveys, ratings, and everything else that turns people into the Global Anonymous.”
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
“I’ve learned less about people, since their destiny interests me more than their reactions, and destinies tend to repeat each other.”
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
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