Being a Human Quotes

“All humans are Scheherazades: we die each morning if we don't have a good story to tell.”
― Charles Foster, Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness

“am not decrying the profession of accountancy, only its appropriation of competence in every field. And if, as it looms, we are entering on a period biased toward materialism at the expense of progress, then we are in the hands of the accountant, a spiritual Ice Age, where all will be frozen and there will be no risk, and without risk, no movement, and without movement, no seeking, and without seeking, no future. Darkness will be upon the face of the deep.’ Alan Garner, ‘Aback of Beyond”
― Charles Foster, Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness