The most important thing is to preserve capital.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

第一批现代工业企业是将大规模生产与大规模分销相结合的企业。

The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.

The present is the point at which time touches eternity.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.