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“Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.”

Humans Goal Existence Perfection Utopia Human Existence Fallacy

Book:My works and days: a personal chronicle

Source: My works and days: a personal chronicle

“We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.”

Humans Heart Running Existence Youth Eternal Ruins Knees Vitality Outrage Human Existence Eternal Youth

Author:Christopher McDougall

“The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.”

Humans Art Culture Simple Existence Style Demand Highest Reflection Mature Human Existence Plenitude

Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.”

Ifs Humans Done Enough Values Existence Rights Benefits Weak Defined Wealthy Civilized Tolerate Exploitation Confined Human Existence Predicaments Civilized Society Basic Rights

Author:William Greider

“What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim "You know exactly what I mean!" depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.”

Knows Humans Mean Moments Character Age Force Race Existence Fiction Class Depends Reader Offers Gender Intimacy Transcendence Messy Human Existence Contingency

Author:Will Self

“Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.”

Source: Venus in Furs

“As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual has become adapted; and almost everything is unnatural outside his range of adaptation. Harmonious equilibrium with nature is an abstract concept with a Platonic beauty but lacking the flesh and blood of life. It fails, in particular, to convey the creative emergent quality of human existence.”

Source: Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change