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Because we are injured most by what we do not expect, and because we must expect everything (‘There is nothing which Fortune does not dare’), we must, proposed Seneca, hold the possibility of disaster in mind at all times.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think once again of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the ‘right’ notes and the ‘wrong’ ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The Moral Law is not any one instinct or set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts.
Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis
For two hundred years, the modern world has answered the question “Who are you?” with a reductive “What do you do?” The Industrial Revolution tied human dignity, quietly but ruthlessly, to economic output. We’ve lived inside what I call the GDP Era. And we’re now, in real time, watching that era end.
The Reality of AI and the Crisis of Meaning
Longbeard
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