Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.
Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.
Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.
Only in recent history has “working hard” signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .
The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today’s employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.
People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.
The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.
Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.
We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
You find peace by coming to terms with what you don’t know.
Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.
Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
Ideas come and go, stories stay.
You need a story to displace a story.
To bankrupt a fool, give him information.