The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

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

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.