A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to. - Alain de Botton

با توجه به پیشرفت علم، برای انسان مدرن دیگر توان اعتقاد به خدا وجود نخواهد داشت. درنتیجه دین و ایمان بازیچه‌ای می‌شود در دست افراطی‌ها و کسانی که در مراحل پایانی زجر و درد از بیماری علاج ناپذیر قرار دارند.

So I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career happened like it did because certain doors opened and certain doors closed. You know, at a certain point I thought it would be great to make film documentaries. Well, in fact, I found that to be incredibly hard and very expensive to do and I didn’t really have the courage to keep battling away at that. In another age, I might have been an academic in a university, if the university system had been different. So it's all about trying to find the best fit between your talents and what the world can offer at that point in time.

Never having been betrayed sets up poor preconditions for remaining faithful. Evolving into genuinely more loyal people requires us to suffer through some properly innoculative episodes, in which we feel for a time limitlessly panicked, violated and on the edge of collapse. Only then can the injunction not to betray our spouses evolve from a bland bromide into a permanently vivid moral imperative.