I mean that in the absence of food, baboons will organize themselves to find a meal, but in the absence of leopards they will never organize themselves to find a leopard.
Daniel QuinnDiversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive almost anything short of a global catastrophe.
Daniel QuinnWe're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world
because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.
The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.
Daniel QuinnThe first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor.
Daniel QuinnMots clés opening-lines
If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael
Daniel QuinnPutting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[...] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work?
Daniel QuinnMots clés food philosophy economy my-ishmael
If you go to Singapore or Amsterdam or Seoul or Buenos Aires or Islamabad or Johannesburg or Tampa or Istanbul or Kyoto, you'll find that the people differ wildly in the way they dress, in their marriage customs, in the holidays they observe, in their religious rituals, and so on, but they all expect the food to be under lock and key. It's all owned, and if you want some, you'll have to buy it.
Daniel QuinnMots clés food philosophy economy my-ishmael
Westereners often think that the East is one vast Buddhist temple, which is rather like thinking the West is one vast Carthusian monastery. If the [Western people who like Buddhism] were to visit the East, he'd certainly experience many new things, but he'd find first, that the food is under lock and key and second, that humans are considered to be a miserable, destructive, greedy lot, just as they are in the West.
Daniel QuinnMots clés buddhism economy philosophy-of-life my-ishmael
A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, "Get a boat!
Daniel QuinnMots clés capitalism poverty homelessness objectivism jobs
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