To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

Only the autodidacts are free.

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

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.