Bookish Bites

"We are a species poised between an awareness of our ultimate insignificance and an ability to reach far beyond our mundane lives, into the void, to solve the most fundamental mysteries of the cosmos."

- Katie Mack, The End of Everything

#Books #Science

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

- Plato, The Republic

#Books #Politics

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster."

- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals

#Books #Nietzsche #MoralPhilosophy

"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."

- Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws

#Books #Politics

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."

- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

#Books #Politics

"Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."

- Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom

#Books #FreedomAndTyranny #Politics

"Where there is no law, there is no freedom."

- John Locke, Two Treatises of Government

#Books #Politics

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

#Books #Politics

“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”

- Thomas Mann

#ThomasMann #MoralResponsibility #Politics

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

#Books #Stoicism #Philosophy

"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

- Elie Wiesel, The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident

#Books #Politics

"Every moment carries the weight of our freedom to choose who we are becoming."

- Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

#Books #Existentialism

“As algorithms become the ultimate arbiters of decision-making, will humanity relinquish its autonomy for the promise of efficiency?”

- Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus

#Books #HomoDeus #FutureOfAI #AI

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
- Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

#Books #Philosophy

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

- George Orwell, 1984

#Books #1984 #Politics

"We command immense power and enjoy rare luxuries, but we are easily manipulated by our own creations, and by the time we wake up to the danger, it might be too late."

- Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus

#Books #AI

"History began when humans invented gods and will end when humans become gods."

- Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus

#Books #AI #FutureOfHumanity

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances."

- Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

#Books #Resilience #MeaningOfLife

"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

#Stoicism #SelfMastery #Books

"Humans run the world because they alone can cooperate flexibly in large numbers. Fiction, myths, and shared beliefs—money, nations, religion—are what unite us."

- Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens

#Books #Sapiens #HumanEvolution