July

“Philosophy wants us to get ourselves out of trouble by utilising our own resources,”
― Luc Ferry, A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living

“Previously bride and groom met in the family living room, and money passed from the hands of one father to another. Today courting is done at bars and cafés, and money passes from the hands of lovers to waitresses. Even more money is transferred to the bank accounts of fashion designers, gym managers, dieticians, cosmeticians and plastic surgeons, who help us arrive at the café looking as similar as possible to the market’s ideal of beauty.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The average Christian believes in the monotheist God, but also in the dualist Devil, in polytheist saints, and in animist ghosts. Scholars of religion have a name for this simultaneous avowal of different and even contradictory ideas and the combination of rituals and practices taken from different sources. It’s called syncretism. Syncretism might, in fact, be the single great world religion.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“We live today in the era not of the art of dying, but of the art of saving life,”
― Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter