Ankit Singh

“From whatever angle we approach our eternal political problem we monotonously reach the same conclusion: that the community should determine the ends to be pursued, but that only experts should select and apply the means; that choice should be democratically spread, but that office should be rigidly reserved for the equipped and winnowed best.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

“The most hated sort of such exchange is . . . usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from its natural use. For money was intended as an instrument of exchange, and not as the mother of interest. This usury (tokos), which means the birth of money from money, . . . is of all modes of gain the most unnatural.”75 Money should not breed. Hence “the discussion of the theory of finance is not unworthy of philosophy; but to be engaged in finance, or in money-making, is unworthy of a free man.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

“the ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving in.”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

“If philosophers gave clear answers then surely the whole field would've died out with the Greeks.”
― Exurb1a, The Fifth Science