September 2011
2 posts
“Too often, the defenders of free markets forget that what we really want is free...”
– Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
June 2011
2 posts
“People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether...”
– Haruki Murakami, After Dark
February 2011
2 posts
“We make promises in accordance with our hopes, and we keep them in accordance...”
– La Rochefoucauld, Collected Maxims and Essays
January 2011
6 posts
“What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man’s safe or in...”
– Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
“The strategy for the discoverers and entrepreneurs is to rely less on top-down...”
– Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“The gods had given me almost everything. But I let myself be lured into long...”
– Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
December 2010
2 posts
“A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: ‘There are...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
November 2010
7 posts
“There is quite literally a new plane for organizing human thoughts and feelings...”
– Tyler Cowen, The Age of the Infovore
“If anyone did him a good or an evil turn, he evidently aimed at going one...”
– Xenophon, The Anabasis
“You, my good buddy, are a fourteen carat gold plated son of a bitch....”
– Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
August 2010
5 posts
“The love of luxury is rooted in the depths of a man’s heart: it shows that...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak
“Count your years and you’ll be ashamed to be wanting and working for exactly the...”
– Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
“Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes,...”
– Edward Gibbon on the emperor Gordian, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
March 2010
2 posts
“Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own...”
– Diogenes Laërtius, The Cynics
February 2010
14 posts
“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed...”
– James Baldwin, No Name In the Street
“If your greatest joy in life is looking forward to tomorrow’s...”
– Steven Landsburg, More Sex Is Safer Sex
“The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
“Come out of the fog, young man. And remember you don’t have to be a...”
– Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
“Like all Americans, I like big things; big prairies, big forests and mountains,...”
– Theodore Roosevelt quoted by Edmund Morris in The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
“Unlimited possibilities are not suited to man; if they existed, his life would...”
– The I Ching
“From what can ‘ought’ be derived? The most compelling answer is this: ethics...”
– Dan Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea 