The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link, an arrow of relationship, upon them. Explanations bind facts together. They make them all the more easily remembered; they help them make more sense. Where this propensity can go wrong is when it increases our impression of understanding.

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

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.