"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."

哲学在成功时是装饰品，在失意时是避难所，在年老时是供应品。

If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

"We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory."