rambler

after watching this mesmerizing speech and reading the YouTube comments, I have the sensation that I have missed something important.

since you can't help yourself, then let's use the word "virtue" for the disciplined application of your method, and the word "fortune" for the outcome of your "investments."

in every man's life, however splendid or modest, there are episodes that mark one's journey as a reader or as a person. Reading Samuel Johnson's essays is both a personal and a reader milestone.

for what would so soon destroy all the order of society, and deform life with violence and ravage, as a permission to every one to judge his own cause...

the ambition of petty accomplishments, in which we believe we’re advancing, but a wiser perspective offers the opposite diagnosis.

the environment is driving me, subconsciously, to choose the effective over the fancy.

... for the impressionable, the young, the foolish, for humanity... It’s not the absurdity of the argument that I find strident, but that it comes veiled as a tautology.

the assignment of prices by the invisible hand of the market reveals how we value certain things in relation to other things. This unveiling is quite amusing some times, harrowing in other occasions.