| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 545a181 | All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. | madness sanity instrumental-rationality means modern-age efficiency ends modernity | Herman Melville | |
| b9d1fa2 | Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough. | wealth modern-age dissatisfaction possibilities | Alain de Botton |