One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.