Letter from Utopia Quotes

“Utopia is the hope that the scattered fragments of good that we come across from time to time in our lives can be put together, one day, to reveal the shape of a new kind of life. The kind of life that yours should have been.”
― Nick Bostrom, Letter from Utopia

“Human life, at its best, is fantastic. I’m asking you to create something even greater. Life that is truly humane.”
― Nick Bostrom, Letter from Utopia

“If the distance between base and apex for you is eight kilometers, then to reach my dwellings would take a million light-year ascent. The altitude is outside moon and planets and all the stars your eyes can see. Beyond dreams. Beyond imagination.”
― Nick Bostrom, Letter from Utopia

“We are in the business of living, and the show must go on.”
― Nick Bostrom, Letter from Utopia

“Pleasure! A few grains of this magic ingredient are worth more than a king’s treasure”
― Nick Bostrom, Letter from Utopia

“Have you ever known a moment of bliss? ... Yet behold, only a little later, scarcely an hour gone by, and the softly-falling soot of ordinary life is already piling up.”
― Nick Bostrom, Letter from Utopia