Daniel Hulter

“Hubris is an inflated sense of one’s own innate abilities that is tied more to the need for dominance than to actual accomplishments. It”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

“the young Romantics began to feel a deep sense of connection to the world around them. They wanted to see the world through the lens of their own selves. Instead of just visiting museums and cities, this new generation scrambled into caves, slept in forests and hiked up mountains to be in nature. They wanted to feel rather than observe what they were seeing. They wanted to discover themselves in nature and ‘to be one with everything living’,”
― Andrea Wulf, Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

“One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serfdom or permanent slavery? It happens, we’d suggest, precisely when promises become impersonal, transferable – in a nutshell, bureaucratized.”
― David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

“I’ve been thinking a great deal about time and motion lately, about being a still point in the ceaseless rush.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility