“Those once victimised by history are likely to be victimised yet again. And those whom history has privileged are more likely to be privileged again.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Anger is the lowest emotion. It clouds the intellect and can make you do foolish things. You become blind to reason and react only with your body, without thinking. This leads to failure in every sphere. Uproot this evil from your system.”
― Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished
― Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished
“atheists and agnostics are not organized and therefore exert almost zero influence. Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“Man is the measure of all things’, meaning that there is no truth except that which man perceives.”
― Zeno and the Tortoise: How to Think Like a Philosopher
― Zeno and the Tortoise: How to Think Like a Philosopher
“Of the billions and billions of species of living things that have existed since the dawn of time, most—99.99 percent, it has been suggested—are no longer around. Life on Earth, you see, is not only brief but dismayingly tenuous. It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.”
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