“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)
“History is often shaped by small groups of forward-thinking innovators rather than by the backward-looking masses.”
Yuval Noah Harari
(in Homo Deus)
Large sections of books describing human history are essentially lists of wars, conflicts and discussions of one group of people against another. In a number of cases the reason why both groups have some of their members either arguing with one another or end up mass murdering each other is connected to a concept usually referred to as nationality or nationalism (unsatiable hunger for natural resources and religion obviously being the other 2 in the top 3 of reasons). Continue reading