Sublime

Un génie n’est rien s’il ne nous élève pas si haut et ne nous rend pas si libres que nous n’ayons plus besoin de lui.

Não se tem mais o direito de sacrificar os indivíduos para proteger o Todo, pois o Todo não é nada mais do que a soma dos indivíduos, uma construção ideal na qual cada ser humano, porque é “um fim em si”, não pode mais ser tratado como um simples meio.

YOU ARE NOT A LOTTERY TICKET

In today’s world, it is generally thought that individuals only pursue their own self-interest. Love is an antidote to that.

les écrits de Herbert Spencer, l’homme qui a marqué de l’empreinte de son génie tout le champ de la recherche scientifique et de la pensée modernes, le père de la psychologie, l’homme qui a révolutionné la pédagogie, au point que le fils du paysan français apprend à lire, à écrire et à compter selon les principes qu’il a énoncés.

From a psychological perspective it makes more sense to attribute the current sense of entitlement and the rise of individualism to a society that teaches people to pursue their own advantage, irrespective of and, if needs be, at the expense of, the other. ‘You only live once.’

To use the “pie” analogy much loved by economists, the difference principle calls on us not to maximize the overall size of the economic pie, nor to rigidly insist that everyone should have a perfectly equal slice—but to make the size of the slice that goes to the least well off as big as possible.