Book: How to stop time. Page 2

All life is like that. You should not be afraid of changes, but you should not warmly welcome them, at least if you are neither hot nor cold from them. Change is the essence of life. They are the only constant I know of.

Feeling nothing, I almost regretted the past suffering: when it hurts, you at least understand that you are still alive.

In the course of time, ignorance changes. But it does not disappear anywhere and is still deadly.

Reading Schopenhauer in a state of melancholy is like undressing when you are cold.

It dawned on me that not a single person lives longer than a hundred years simply because he is not ready for it. I mean psychologically. Like a runner, you run out of steam.

History is about people. Everyone loves history.

The bottom line is that history is everywhere. People need to realize this. To understand what place they occupy in the world.

The story does not need to be revived. History is already alive. We are history ourselves. History is not about politicians or kings and queens. History is every person. World around us. Including this cup of coffee. The whole history of capitalism, imperialism and slavery can be told just by talking about coffee. It's scary to think how much blood and suffering it took to be able to sit here and sip coffee from a cardboard cup.