Existentialism Quote by Geoffrey West Download Open image ““the fantastic power and ultimate absurdity of unchecked exponential growth.”” — Geoffrey West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Existentialism Exponential growth Growth
“While exponential growth is a remarkable manifestation of our extraordinary accomplishments as a species, built into it are the potential seeds of our demise… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“When growth becomes a supreme good, unrestricted by any other ethical considerations, it can easily lead to catastrophe.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.” — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
“Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.” — Kenneth Boulding Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). By reading any text of popular science we quickly regain the sense of the absurd, but this time it is a sentiment that can be held in… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share
“Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“the growth of the modern economy might turn out to be a colossal fraud.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on. — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Your cells are not working as hard as your dog's but harder than your horse's. The bigger the animal, the less energy needed to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“While exponential growth is a remarkable manifestation of our extraordinary accomplishments as a species, built into it are the potential seeds of our demise… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“The system we have evolved critically relies on people continually wanting new cars and new cell phones, new widgets and gadgets, new clothes and… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Cities are sustained by similar network systems such as roads, railways, and electrical lines that transport people, energy, and resources and whose flow is… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially if you… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, then, the most surprising consequence of a visionary Theory of Everything is that it implies that on the grand scale the universe, including… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“It is all too often forgotten that the whole point of a city is to bring people together, to facilitate interaction, and thereby to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“The integration of these two kinds of networks, namely, the requirement that socioeconomic interaction represented by space-filling fractal-like social networks must be anchored to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“So why do almost all cities remain viable, whereas the vast majority of companies and organisms die?” — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception… — Armond White Copy Share Image
“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on earth.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his return. Eyes closed, arms oaring. Upright to what? Something nameless in the night, lode or matrix. To which he and the stars were common satellite. Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“If we are unable to tolerate ourselves when we are alone, how can we expect anyone else to be enriched by our company? Before… — Gerald Corey Copy Share Image
