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“Most people would rather give than get affection.”

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Aristotle, a renowned Greek philosopher, is one of the founders of Western philosophy. His thoughts covered a wide range of fields, including ethics, logic, politics, and had a profound impact on the world. more

“You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.”

“Your God is too Small”

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Book:The newborn Christian: 114 readings from J.B. Phillips

Source: The newborn Christian: 114 readings from J.B. Phillips

“"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.”

People Two Courses Future Degrees Worship Concepts Balls Miracle Pursuit Replaced Mindless Sticky

Author:Bill McKibben

“...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."”

Believe Real Order Belief Natural Pay Environment Generations Future Investment Debt Enormous Settling Our Society Worthwhile Consumption Future Generation Natural Environment

Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren to cope with the results as best they can.”

Believe Results Environment Future Western Debt Contemporary Worthwhile Grandchildren Western Society

Book:The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic

Source: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic

“Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.”

Future Rage Desperate Remorse

Book:Complete writings: with variant readings

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

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