You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

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

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I don't believe it has any negative impact on people's lives outside of intolerance. Why do I go to church? It's like asking, why did you marry that woman? You make up reasons, but it's probably just smell. I love the smell of candles. It's an aesthetic thing.

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.