“The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress.” DoeGoalProgressAchievementNotionDrivenAbsenceAttachmentMomentumRationalize Author:John Carroll
“What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.” ThinkingMenNeedsPhilosophyAgeDifficultGoalTermAbilityAbsenceVanityAspirationDeniedAcademicMaladyIrreligionWrong Thinking Author:Krishnananda Saraswati
“It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and for freedom.” GovernmentPurposeLanguageGoalMoralMediaDangerousCapitalismAbsence Author:Elisabeth Murdoch