Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately co-ordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
~ Lao Zi
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The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.
~ William Faulkner
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
~ Gertrude Stein
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The bottom line is that if you give somebody a standardized test when they are 13 or 18, you will learn something important about them, but not necessarily whether they will flourish in life, nor necessarily whether they will contribute usefully to society’s greater good. Intelligence is not the same as effectiveness.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Im Kapitalismus ist eine Religion zu erblicken, d.h. der Kapitalismus dient essentiell der Befriedigung derselben Sorgen, Qualen, Unruhen, auf die ehemals die so genannten Religionen Antwort gaben.
― Walter Benjamin
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Information is the resolution of uncertainty.
~ Claude Shannon
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Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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You have to know what you want to get it.
~ Gertrude Stein
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