true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you; then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

Rationalism crashes in the tails.

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

Luck is the grand equalizer.