My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change.

'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they go and gather and gossip. ...Whatever the circumstances the genius has put you into, the fact of individuality defends the soul against all class-action claims. No soul is mediocre, whatever your personal taste for conventionality, whatever your personal record of middling achievements.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.