“The competition between the two forces can be succinctly expressed as follows: Within groups selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals. Or, risking oversimplification, individual selection promoted sin, while group selection promoted virtue.”
― The Meaning of Human Existence
― The Meaning of Human Existence
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.”
― Studies in Pessimism
― Studies in Pessimism
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