The Bed of Procrustes

If your anger decreases with time, you did injustice; if it increases, you suffered injustice.

Don’t talk about “progress” in terms of longevity, safety, or comfort before comparing zoo animals to those in the wilderness. –

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

You don’t become completely free by just avoiding to be a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.*

Never say no twice if you mean it.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

You are alive in inverse proportion to the density of clichés in your writing.

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.

You have a calibrated life when most of what you fear has the titillating prospect of adventure.