The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE)
Daniel QuinnTags: progress change failure culture
If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.
Daniel QuinnOur lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.
Daniel QuinnYou shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer
Daniel QuinnTags: deep
And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.
Daniel QuinnTags: deep
The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.
Daniel QuinnWe're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.
Daniel QuinnThere is no one right way to live.
Daniel QuinnBut why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live
Daniel QuinnMan's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.
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