Martin von Haller Groenbaek

“Don’t always do to others what you would like them to do to you—their tastes could be very different from yours.”
― Fernando Savater, Amador: A Father Talks to His Son about Happiness, Freedom, and Love

“a rational analysis of the consequences of a decision does not make the decision rational; the consequences do not determine our decision; it is always we who decide.”
― Karl R. Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

“Probably there are no longer any societies in which the best people are attracted to civic duties.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society

“Pay no attention to those who tell you that the world, politically, is unlivable, that nobody can attain a good life, ethically speaking, in a context as unjust, as violent, and as aberrant as the one we live in. The same thing has been said in every age, and with justification, for human societies have always been of this world, and hence full of flaws, abuses, and crimes. Yet in every age there have been people capable of living well, or at least of trying to live well. When they can, they help to improve the society through what they are able to accomplish; if that is not possible, at least they don’t make it worse, which is no small thing. They have fought—and they still fight, you can be sure—for the human relations”
― Fernando Savater, Amador: A Father Talks to His Son about Happiness, Freedom, and Love