Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending