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Quote by Akira Kurosawa

“This is probably true of human life everywhere - a light exterior hides a dark underside.”

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This book offers a candid look into the author's life, delving into personal anecdotes, insights, and the evolution of their thoughts and experiences over time. more

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Akira Kurosawa

A renowned Japanese film director, known for his masterpieces such as 'Rashomon' and 'Seven Samurai'. His films profoundly reveal the complexity of human nature and social contradictions, having a profound impact on world cinema. more

“The history of environmental lawmaking suggests that people are best able to change their ways when they find two things at once in nature: something to fear, a threat they must avoid, and also something to love, a quality they can admire or respect, and which they can do their best to honor. The first impulse, of fear, can be rendered in purely human-centered terms, as a matter of avoiding environmental crisis. The second impulse, of love, engages animist intuitions and carries us toward post-humanism, which is perhaps just another name for an enriched humanism. Either impulse can stay the human hand, but the first stops it just short of being burnt or broken. The second keeps the hand poised, extended in greeting or in an offer of peace. This gesture is the beginning of collaboration, among people but also beyond us, in building our next home.”

Democracy Environment Human Nature Collaboration Post Humanism

Book:After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene

Source: After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene

“It is the effects on the world of successful active germ-line replicators that we see as adaptations.”

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Book:The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

Source: The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

“What I do mean is that all that thinking will be mere moonshine unless we realise that nothing but the courage and unselfishness of individuals is ever going to make any system work properly. It is easy enough to remove the particular kinds of graft or bullying that go on under the present system: but as long as men are twisters or bullies they will find some new way of carrying on the old game under the new system. You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.”

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Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity