Tao Te Ching

“The kind of hedonism popularized by the Rubáiyát can help to put us back in touch with the virtues of direct experience in our age where so much of daily life is filtered through the two-dimensional electronic flickers on a smartphone or tablet. We are becoming observers of life rather than participants, immersed in a society of the digital spectacle. Let us keep a copy of the Rubáiyát in our pockets, alongside the iPhone, and remember the words of wise Khayyám: ‘While you live Drink! – for, once dead, you never shall return.’”

— Roman Krznaric 1
Practical, popular, modern philosopher

from Carpe Diem Regained