Hielke

“Even apart from the instability due to speculation, there is the instability due to the characteristic of human nature that a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than mathematical expectations, whether moral or hedonistic or economic. Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as the result of animal spirits—a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.”
― John Maynard Keynes

“We leven in een bijzonder historische fase, waarin de vrijheid zelf dwang veroorzaakt. De vrijheid van het kunnen brengt zelf meer vormen van dwang voort dan het disciplinaire moeten, dat geboden en verboden formuleert. Het moet heeft een grens. Het kan heeft er daarentegen geen. Grenzeloos is dan ook de dwang die zijn oorsprong vindt in het kunnen.”
― Byul-Chul Han

“Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.”
― Douglas Hurd

“Only one thing surprises me more than the stupidity with which most men live their lives and that is the intellegence inherent in that stupidity. [...] The wise man makes his life monotonous, for then even the tiniest accident becomes imbued with great significance.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet