The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing?

Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.