For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

Life is serious but art is fun!

There are three things in life...not worrying what they are, not caring what others may think they are, and enjoying the wonder of what they might be.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

I'm not miserable, but I can't not be angry.

In fact, you don’t have a soul, you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body or your mind. You are you.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

There are big lines between those who play video games and those who do not. For those who don't, video games are irrelevant. They think all video games must be too difficult.