Reflections

Regarding an hallucination of our conscience

A human being is part of the totality we call Universe, a limited part of time and space. He experiments himself and his thoughts as been separated from the rest, a class of hallucination of our conscience. This hallucination is a type of prison for us, restricting our personal wishes and affections towards a few people close to us. Our task is to free ourselves from such prison, expanding our circle of compassion, embracing every living creature and the entire nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

 

Regarding the love for money

Love for money as a possession—to distinguish it from love for money as a means to satisfy our needs and pleasures in life—will be recognized as what it is, a somewhat repugnant morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological tendencies that are left with a shiver in the hands of specialists in mental illnesses.

John Maynard Keynes

 

Regarding how corporate benefits are obtained and what is done with them

How benefits are obtained and what is done with them, which should be the main concern of enterprises as social responsibility, are less of a priority than the magnitude of the obtained benefits.

Antonio Vives