“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
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“Consistency is the playground of dull minds.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“For then I lost all sense of the place in which I had gone to sleep, and when I awoke at midnight, not knowing where I was, I could not be sure at first who I was; I had only the most rudimentary sense of existence, such as may lurk and flicker in the depths of an animal’s consciousness; I was more destitute of human qualities than the cave-dweller; but then the memory, not yet of the place in which I was, but of various other places where I had lived, and might now very possibly be, would come like a rope let down from heaven to draw me up out of the abyss of not-being, from which I could never have escaped by myself".
Marcel Proust
In Search of Lost Time, 1913”
― Swann’s Way
Marcel Proust
In Search of Lost Time, 1913”
― Swann’s Way
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