You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

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.

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