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“I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.”

People Ifs Want Feels Writing Humans Persons Problem Audience Fairs Luck Bounds Superiors Dumb Heavenly Inferiors Intervention Comical Paraphrase Human Problems Dumb Luck

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.”

World Humans Character Problem Culture Found Answers Economy Failing Goes On Innocent Producers Guilty Consumers Consumerism Ecology Overconsumption Dividing Human Problems

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays

“It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.”

Mind Humans Problem Impossible Approach Bias Human Problems Mind Free

Book:The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.”

People Humans Problem Asks Ability Human Problems

Author:Timothy Keller

“We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.”