What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately.... : Quote by Alain de Botton

“ What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation. ”

Alain de Botton
  • From : The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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