Marxism tamed revolution by rendering it “scientific”, inevitable, a matter of the right ingredients in the right proportions, like chemistry. What has been tamed will be vulgarized, and it is Marx himself who is the true father of Che on a t-shirt.
Wounded honor provoked duels; wounded feelings provoke lawsuits.
Everyone can be replaced, and will be.
We repeat history because we cannot reverse it.
Complexity, randomness, inspiration, unconscious process — we bestow names as if they conferred understanding.
Revolution is for an imagined future, and revolt, on which it depends, for an imagined past.
To act requires a certain lack of imagination.
The only way to escape the thrall of a philosopher is to read him.
“I’m not concerned about short-term fluctuations”: I have lost some money
“I’m in this for the long haul”: I am determined to lose a lot of money
“If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”
“Market failure.”