#stop

If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#philosophy #men

There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, giver her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you. ↗

— Joe Vigil

#born-to-run #christopher-mcdougall #folly #greed #running

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others ↗

— Iain Banks

#dystopia #greed #indictment #morality #nihilistic

Get rid of the idea that to own money or to be associated with it is "dirty" or "greedy" or "non-spiritual. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#christopher-dines-quotes #money

You pays your money and you takes your choice. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#science-fiction #money

It’s more eerie to be alone in a city that’s lit up and functioning than one that’s a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdsong. But the corpse of civilization is as restless as the creatures that now roam the graveyards. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#dystopia #nature

But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#nature

Happiness is our natural state of being that cannot be found in anything external. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#christopher-dines-quotes #la-petite-fleur-publishing #manifest-your-bliss #nature

The enlightened question to ask in any relationship is, “what can I give rather than what can I get? ↗

— Christopher Dines

#christopher-dines-quotes #la-petite-fleur-publishing #manifest-your-bliss #relationship

...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce. ↗

— Tad Williams

#dystopia #future #religion