Michele Pasin / Quotes

Death is not a sickness

Premature death may come as a result of sickness, but—like birth—death as such is not a sickness at all. It is the natural and necessary end of human life—as…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #death #life #end

Religion against religions

The Breaking off of Churches.—There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits #religion #Church #world #end #number

Surveillance and the end of privacy

Consider the astonishing means now being made for snooping, the devices already used in offices, factories, stores, and on various lines of communication such…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #years #outcomes #lines #end

We are primordially illogical and hence unjust beings and can recognise this fact

An inclination towards a thing, or from a thing, without an accompanying feeling that the beneficial is desired and the pernicious contemned, an inclination…

Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits #men #feelings #end

Asking the proactive question

So on the third day, we decided to focus on the proactive question, “What is our response? What are we going to do? How can we exercise initiative in this…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #proactivity #problem #decisions

DOAJ keeps dodgy journals out

When Lars Bjørnshauge founded a website to index open-access journals in 2003, just 300 titles made the list. But over the next decade, the open-access…

Open-access Website Gets Tough : Nature News & Comment #today #problem