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“A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.”

Way Wells Long Enough Would Be Faces Values Attitude Conditions Planets Consequence Environmental Inevitable Permanent Doom Enough Time Wrong Attitude

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.”

Humans Work Conditions Source Inevitable Human Life Welfare

Book:My Religion

Source: My Religion

“Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.”

“We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.”

Littles Earth Natural Accepting Conditions Planets Inevitable Adjusting

Book:Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation

Source: Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation

“My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found in human nature. I was attempting in my successive books to show the inevitable handicap of the human condition.”

Way Humans Book Shows Found Conditions Human Nature Despair Perfection Absolutes Inevitable Pessimism Human Condition Attempting Handicaps

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying to make it work the same way I did with my juvenile mind - that is, to imagine how we are suffering. To record it being actual and then virtual.”

Way Giving Trying Mind Looks Suffering Consciousness Records Imagine Conditions Reader Inevitable Juvenile Deteriorating Vertigo

Author:Tony Burgess