One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate their own fantasies into reality instead of tasting what reality itself has to offer.
Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody … - Philip Slater
Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody …
- Philip Slater
A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks mini… - Philip Slater
A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks mini…
Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fant… - Philip Slater
Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fant…
If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advert… - Philip Slater
If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advert…
We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it. - Philip Slater
We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it.
At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what mo… - Philip Slater
At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what mo…
Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to the so… - Philip Slater
Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to the so…
The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manu… - Philip Slater
The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manu…
A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously. - Philip Slater
A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.
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