‘People do what their society rewards them for doing. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting.’
“Often, our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis helps us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand, may be so adaptive as to ultimately lead to self-destruction.”
― The Oath of the Vayuputras
― The Oath of the Vayuputras
“Those who are already wise no longer love wisdom – whether they are gods or men.
Similarly, those whose own ignorance has made them bad, rotten, evil, do not strive for wisdom either. For no evil or ignorant person ever strives for wisdom. What remains are those who suffer from ignorance, but still retain some sense and understanding. They are conscious of knowing what they don’t know.”
― The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
Similarly, those whose own ignorance has made them bad, rotten, evil, do not strive for wisdom either. For no evil or ignorant person ever strives for wisdom. What remains are those who suffer from ignorance, but still retain some sense and understanding. They are conscious of knowing what they don’t know.”
― The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
“And I wonder, in my last moments, if the planet does not mind that we wound her surface or pillage her bounty, because she knows we silly warm things are not even a breath in her cosmic life. We have grown and spread, and will rage and die. And when all that remains of us is our steel monuments and plastic idols, her winds will whisper, her sands will shift, and she will spin on and on, forgetting about the bold, hairless apes who thought they deserved immortality.”
― Morning Star
― Morning Star
“Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair,”
― Golden Son
― Golden Son
“We easily think associatively, we think metaphorically, we think causally, but statistics requires thinking about many things at once, which is something that System 1 is not designed to do.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
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