“The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.” ReasonFormIndividualFashionCostBenefitsAdvantageSpeciesConnected Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.” NeedsArtHandsGovernmentCertainEvilNationsResultsPovertyFashionDangerousPrideIndustryTasteBenefitsSpringInfiniteConvincedVanityNeglectLazinessPoliteness Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“Deliberately, on every historic occasion, we piously fake events for the benefit of photographers, while the actual event often occurs in a different fashion; and we have the effrontery to call these artful dress rehearsals authentic historic documents.” DifferentFashionEventsBenefitsDressesPhotographerOccasionsFakeDocumentsHistoricRehearsal Book:Art and Technics Source: Art and Technics
“I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different. I'm an advocate of an approach that endeavors to foster empathy and which tries to find a common humanity across the divide.” ThinkingWorldTryingDifferentHumanityUnderstandingCommonFashionTaughtPerspectiveBenefitsApproachEmpathyEndeavorDividesWorld HistoryCommon Humanity Author:Maya Soetoro-Ng
“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.” ReasonPoliticalFashionProduceTasteBenefitsInnovationProgrammingImitation Author:George Santayana
“A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will.” ShouldPersonsDoeBornVirtueCenturyFashionStylePeriodsProveBenefitsAdvantagePhilosopherWorthyTriumphGreat PersonAgeless Author:Baltasar Gracian