Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.

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.

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

In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

...maximize the serendipity around you.

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.