I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.
Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.
Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it.
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.
In my experience, the worst thing you can do to an important problem is to discuss it.
And people really behaved in a fraudulent way or something, we'll go back and find the culprits later on. But that really isn't the problem we have. I mean that's where it came from, though. We leveraged up and if you have a 20 percent fall in value of a $20 trillion asset, that's $4 trillion. And when $4 trillion lands - losses land in the wrong part of this economy, it can gum up the whole place.
Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? Very well; that is the book you want to study while you are living. There is but one such book in the world.
When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.
Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.