Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
The line between good and evil is permeable and anyone can cross it when pushed by circumstances.
The meaning of "knowing" has shifted from being able to remember and repeat information to being able to find and use it.
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.