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“Always make new mistakes”
― Esther Dyson

“Obsessively tracking our wellness, while continuously finding new avenues of self-enhancement, leaves little room to live.”
― Carl Cederström, The Wellness Syndrome

“What is an argument for the defense that neither torments nor troubles — what is a eulogy that fails to kill? Every apology should be a murder by enthusiasm.”
― Emil Cioran, Anathemas and Admirations

“Were we in the habit of looking beyond the specific content of ideologies and doctrines, we should see that to claim kinship with one of them rather than some other does not at all imply much expenditure of sagacity. Those following one party imagine they differ from those following another, whereas all, once they choose, join each other underneath, participate in one and the same nature, and vary only in appearance, by the mask they assume.”
― Emil Cioran, Anathemas and Admirations

“The difficulty lies in the very expression “relation to the world,” which presupposes two sorts of domains, that of nature and that of culture, domains that are at once distinct and impossible to separate completely.”
― Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime