Philip Yhelzon

“It is increasingly a world of calories without nutritional value, stories without comfort, information without knowledge, contacts without friendship, politics without community, creation without beauty, activities lacking sense. On the basis of a growing spiral of debt, only quantitative, but not qualitative growth can thrive.”
― Rahim Taghizadegan, Austrian School for Investors: Austrian Investing between Inflation and Deflation

“This civilization was able to spring into existence because the peoples were dominated by ideas which were the application of the teachings of economics to the problems of economic policy. It will and must perish if the nations continue to pursue the course which they entered upon under the spell of doctrines rejecting economic thinking.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: Scholar's Edition

“It is one thing to put bread and wine away in a store-room, and quite another to eat them. What is eaten is digested and distributed around the body, to become sinews, flesh, bones, blood, a good complexion, sound breathing. What is stored away is ready at hand, to be sure, to be taken out and displayed whenever you wish, but you derive no benefit from it, except that of having the reputation of possessing it. [”
― Epictetus, Discourses, Fragments, Handbook

“Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: Scholar's Edition