Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".

This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

The proper study of mankind is books.