It was a whiny culture, we were finding.
It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.
It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did. Best to strip all statements of real content, this was the basic law of diplomac...
If you don’t act on it, it wasn’t a true feeling
If our government tries to back the banks instead of us, then we elect a different government. We pretend that democracy is real, and that will make it real. We elect a government of the people, by th...
Henry Ford was afraid that the amount of dirt that was being removed to make room for the foundation of the Empire State Building was so great that it would have a disastrous effect on the rotation of...
He was a fool. Annoying, as fools are. But there are always fools, Freya. People like him will always exist, and they don’t matter. Don’t you see? They just don’t matter. Fools will always be with us....
Every day we wake up into a new world, each sleep causes yet another reincarnation.
But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.
Arabic is learning, but Persian is sugar.
Teaching was the most rigorous form of learning.
The way bubbles work is structurally identical to Ponzi schemes—what a coincidence!—and indeed it’s another amazing coincidence how much the entire capitalist economy resembles in its basic structure...
First a wind ensemble playing a transcription of the Appassionata piano sonata; then Beethoven’s opus 134, which was his own transcription for two pianos of his Grosse Fugue for string quartet, opus 1...
You can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both.
When you discover that you are living in a fantasy that cannot endure, a fantasy that will destroy your world, and your children, what do you do?
When memory fails to contain us we must love the past more than ever, to hold it to us—or else the present becomes a meaningless blaze of color and sound, in which no two humans, great elongate beings...
What was personal gain but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And what was power but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And once you had that freedom, any more wealth or power actually beg...
We’ve been paying a fraction of what things really cost to make, but meanwhile the planet, and the workers who made the stuff, take the unpaid costs right in the teeth.
We think now that love is a kind of giving of attention.
We should think of Earth as our sun. We all revolve around it, and it exerts a huge drag on us.