“Tiredness of life manifests itself as melancholy in weak-natured individuals. In strong-natured ones as indifference.”
Ferdinand Borderwijk (in his book ‘Character’)
“Tiredness of life manifests itself as melancholy in weak-natured individuals. In strong-natured ones as indifference.”
Ferdinand Borderwijk (in his book ‘Character’)
“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
David Graeber
“For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little.”
Yuval Noah Harari
(in Homo Deus)
“The strength of a movement lies in her ability to articulate a positive cause. Agreeing on what you are opposed to is the easy part.”
Alain Badiou
“Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish has been caught will we finally realize we cannot eat money.”
Cree Proverb
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”
Roy Amara
“Life is too short to be normal. Stay weird.”
Unknown
“When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!’ “
Lao Tzu
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
George Bernard Shaw
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
Benjamin Brewster