Happiness needs one-upmanship.

Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.

An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life.

Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.

I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.