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For every dollar and every minute we invest in improving artificial intelligence, it would be wise to invest a dollar and a minute in advancing human consciousness. #YuvalNoahHarari

For every dollar and every minute we invest in improving artificial intelligence, it would be wise to invest a dollar and a minute in advancing human consciousness. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 21, 2026

Lives can be meaningful even when they involve a lot of failure and humiliation. #TheSchoolOfLife

Lives can be meaningful even when they involve a lot of failure and humiliation. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 20, 2026

There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel #Schopenhauer

There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel #Schopenhauer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2026

Our secular world is lacking in the sorts of rituals that might put us gently in our place. #AlaindeBotton

Our secular world is lacking in the sorts of rituals that might put us gently in our place. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2026

But, if the follies of youth made me for a while forget his wise lessons, I have at length the happiness to be conscious that, whatever propensity one may have to vice, it is not easy for an education, with which love has mingled, to be entirely thrown away. #JeanJacquesRousseau

But, if the follies of youth made me for a while forget his wise lessons, I have at length the happiness to be conscious that, whatever propensity one may have to vice, it is not easy for an education, with which love has mingled, to be entirely thrown away. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2026

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor favor to those of skill, but time and chance happen to them all. An essential part of rationality is dealing with randomness in our lives and uncertainty in our knowledge. #StevenPinker

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor favor to those of skill, but time and chance happen to them all. An essential part of rationality is dealing with randomness in our lives and uncertainty in our knowledge. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2026

There is a helplessness in the character of extreme humanity which more than any thing interests our pity. There is nothing in itself which renders it either ungraceful or disagreeable. We only regret that it is unfit for the world, because the world is unworthy of it #AdamSmith

There is a helplessness in the character of extreme humanity which more than any thing interests our pity. There is nothing in itself which renders it either ungraceful or disagreeable. We only regret that it is unfit for the world, because the world is unworthy of it #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 18, 2026