Ovidiu Ivan

“We have come as far as we have because we are the cleverest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. But if we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom.”
― David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

“Boastful as Truman could be in speeches about the aerial bombardment of cities, the ground-level reality jerked him into an apocalyptic frame of mind. “I hope for some kind of peace—but I fear that machines are ahead of morals by some centuries.” He added, “We are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there’ll [be] a reckoning—who knows?”
― Gary J. Bass, Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

“Arta de a divaga – și a rămâne totuși în veșnicie – mi se pare un secret pe care majoritatea modernilor l-au uitat”
― Mircea Eliade, Oceanografie

“If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy