"The past was still a Golden Age, of……" — Jared Diamond

"The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss."

— Jared Diamond

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88 Quotes by Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond has 88 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural…
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being…
In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex…
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago…
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of…
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions…
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long…
When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you…
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end…
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared…
A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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