“[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.” PhilosophyCivilizationExploitation Book:Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Source: Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.” PhilosophyCivilization Book:Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Source: Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.” WayCivilizationErrorsTrialsAircraftTrial And Error Book:Ishmael: A Novel Source: Ishmael: A Novel
“[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village.” WayFirstsHas BeensWarMomentsTodayPastNextBreakGenerationsEventsRevolutionCivilizationFoundationEastPresent MomentVillageFarmersIsolatedFarmingRelevanceLive For TodayTrojansTrojan War Author:Daniel Quinn
