"The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness"

“Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.”

“The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?”

“The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.”

“What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.”

Source : Charles Taylor (1992). “The Ethics of Authenticity”, p.110, Harvard University Press

“and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.”

“In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.”

“Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is, physically it has changed remarkably little. People's feelings about it, rather, have changed. The neighborhood shows a strange inability to update itself, enliven itself, repair itself, or to be sought after, out of choice, by a new generation. It is dead. Actually it was dead from birth, but nobody noticed this much until the corpse began to smell.”

“Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.”

Source : Stuart A. Kauffman (2010). “Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion”, p.260, Basic Books