“It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.”
― Island
― Island
“We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.”
― Island
― Island
“Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.”
― Island
― Island
“which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?”
― Island
― Island
“Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.”
― Island
― Island
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