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“Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could have been different in our own society – that the way we live is only one among innumerable ways of life which humans have adopted. If we glance sideways and backwards, we will quickly discover that modern society, with its many possibilities and seducing offers, its dizzying complexity and its impressive technological advances, is a way of life which has not been tried out for long. Perhaps, psychologically speaking, we have just left the cave: in terms of the history of our species, we have but spent a moment in modern societies. (..) Anthropology may not provide the answer to the question of the meaning of life, but at least it can tell us that there are many ways in which to make a life meaningful.”
― Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
― Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Social media make us more predictable than we need to be and so easier to rule.”
― On Freedom
― On Freedom
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