One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate their own….

Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody ….

If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advert….

People can bear anything..

A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks mini….

At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what mo….

The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manu….

Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fant….

We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it..

Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it..

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable e….

Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne..

It is a mistake - as so many over-centralized socialist societies have discovered - to try to eliminate money as an incentive. Money is one incen….

Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to the so….

Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something..

A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously..