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“What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of all around us. It's going to take us a long time to learn how to climb down a little bit from the heights on which we have put ourselves.”

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Author:Bill McKibben

“What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.”

Want Turns Conditions Goes On Comfort Comfortable Discovery Profit Endless Discomfort

Book:Philosophy of right

Source: Philosophy of right

“Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.”

Giving Evil Sorrow Comfort Blessing Add Endless Flight Ruins Injury Instruction

Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts

“If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.”

Ifs World Culture Opportunity Generations Information This World Comfort Succeed Standards Resources Focused Endless Privacy Longevity Inheritance Navigate

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“I mean, the paradox is that whereas the screen, it seems to me - the cinema can absorb endless amounts of music, it cannot really with comfort absorb large amounts of words. Not nearly as many words, that is to say, as a stage can.”

Mean Seems Stage Amount Comfort Screens Endless Cinema Paradox

Author:Bob Mondello

“Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.”

Ability Source Comfort Endless

Author:Richard Yates

“We all have our routines," he said softly."But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and take some comfort from, or else they have no use at all. Without that, they are like the endless pacings of a caged animal. If they are not madness itself, then they are a prelude to it.”

Ifs Said Use Purpose Animal Comfort Madness Endless Outcomes Caged Pacing Prelude Caged Animal

Book:The Book of Lost Things: A Novel

Source: The Book of Lost Things: A Novel

“You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane”

May Soul Pain Together Laughing Havens Comfort Hundred Endless Tales Insane Educated My Soul Strings

Author:Rumi

“If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men and women are not content to comfort themselves with tales of gods and giants, or to confine their thoughts to the daily affairs of life; they also build telescopes and satellites and accelerators and sit at their desks for endless hours working out the meaning of the data they gather.”

Ifs Men Science Hours Hard Work Comfort Research Men And Women Fruit Affair Work Out Endless Tales Data Giants Desks Consolation Solace Telescopes Satellites

Author:Steven Weinberg