As a flood spreads wider and wider, the water becomes shallower and dirtier. The Revolution evaporates, and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
~ Franz Kafka
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Monthly Archives: March 2024
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Biographies are but clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
~ Mark Twain
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What’s the return on investment of college? What’s the return on investment of having children, spending time with friends, listening to music, reading a book? The things that are most worth doing are worth doing for their own sake.
~ William Deresiewicz
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I would rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand people on the faculty of Harvard University.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Before we can try to remold society intelligently, we must understand its functioning; we must realise that, even when we believe that we understand it, we may be mistaken.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk
– we can talk about it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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Economics is not an exact science.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Five British Universities with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
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A world dominated by the technologies of industrial society is fundamentally more detrimental than beneficial to human happiness and survival.
~ Kirkpatrick Sale
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Since well before the pandemic, we’ve lived in a world of low-friction digital communication, where passing an obligation to someone else is extremely easy.
~ Cal Newport via The Atlantic
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