Mike Chitty

“we will continue to despise people until we have recognized, loved, and accepted what is despicable in ourselves.”
― Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

“Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Language is not necessary for thinking, just for certain kinds of thinking. What was it for, then?”
― Iain McGilchrist, Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
― Buckminster Fuller