John N Gray Quotes
As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.
From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.
Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire, (...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices
If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience.
