excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.”


“More than 90 per cent of all money – more than $50 trillion appearing in our accounts – exists only on computer servers.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
― Essays and Aphorisms
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
― Essays and Aphorisms

“Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“It’s the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“Decisions, intentions, efforts, goals, willpower, etc., are causal states of the brain, leading to specific behaviors, and behaviors lead to outcomes in the world. Human choice, therefore, is as important as fanciers of free will believe. But the next choice you make will come out of the darkness of prior causes that you, the conscious witness of your experience, did not bring into being.”
― Free Will
― Free Will
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