“We have lost our humanity to the decimal point.”
“The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.”
“As human beings, we haven’t lost our intuition; we just stopped paying attention”
“And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.”
“...there is no real advance in human reason, for what we gain in one direction we lose in another; for all minds start from the same point, and as the time spent in learning what others have thought is so much time lost in learning to think for ourselves, we have more acquired knowledge and less vigor of mind. Our minds like our arms are accustomed to use tools for everything, and to do nothing for themselves.”
“Love is the only game we all have played and lost at some point.”