History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

Rationalism crashes in the tails.

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.

What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

What kills me makes others stronger.

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.