A batch of the best highlights from what Jophin's read, .
What’s the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot. Well, economists make such calculations all the time, but that’s their job, and they think it makes sense. In this case, better just to throw up your hands and say civilization is effectively a fiscal infinity, a human infinity.
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
Don’t ever forget these things: The nature of the world. My nature. How I relate to the world. What proportion of it I make up. That you are part of nature, and no one can prevent you from speaking and acting in harmony with it, always.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
challenging our beliefs – ‘playing detective’ to check their validity – is always the first port of call.