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Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.

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Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

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On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad dependin...more

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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

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If the world seems unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest that it is not surprising that things should be thus. We are the playthi...more

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On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.