A quote from Waking Life that I think of often when people watching:
"...When you come to think of it, almost all human behavior and activity is not essentially any different from animal behavior. The most advanced technologies and craftsmanship bring us, at best, up to the super-chimpanzee level. Actually, the gap between, say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human. The realm of the real spirit, the true artist, the saint, the philosopher, is rarely achieved.
Why so few? Why is world history and evolution not stories of progress but rather this endless and futile addition of zeroes? No greater values have developed. Hell, the Greeks 3,000 years ago were just as advanced as we are. So what are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential?..."
About Me
- Girl In A Tree
- I'm content in the fact that they don't expect respect, sex, love, or trust from me.
1 comment:
Nice Quote! I wonder though, is the gap between our finest people - Plato, Gandhi and so on - really greater than the gap between a Chimp and an ordinary person? In my optimistic moments I don't agree with that; but in my moments of cynicism, I think it is dead on.
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