Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

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.

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

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

If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.