“...it may be that there is no God, that the existence of all that is beautiful and in any sense good is but the accidental and ineffective byproduct of blindly swirling atoms, that we are alone in a world that cares nothing for us or for the values that we create and sustain - that we and they are here for a moment only, and gone, and that eventually there will be left no trace of us in the universe. A man may well believe that this dredful thing is true. But only the fool will say in his heart that he is glad that it is true.” ThinkingMenWorldBelieveWellsHeartMayMomentsCareBeautifulValuesUniverseLeftExistenceGoneFoolGladAtomsThere Is No God Author:Sterling M. McMurrin
“A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.” KnowsWellsValuesBreakArmsFoolIntegrityFellowsBonesNeighborHandleDescriptionLengthPedantryBlockheads Book:Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld
“Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.” GivingMayTwoRealSometimesReasonUseActionPurposeValuesCoursesChancePiecesFoolTrumpInstrumentsStrategyAppearanceCardsDealerDeckDeck Of Cards Book:Fool Source: Fool
“Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made?” WorldMadeStillsValuesDecisionPleasureFoolCostJudgmentDeedsMortalsDelusionDecisions Made Author:Steven Erikson
“The strategy of buying what's in favor is a fool's errand, ensuring long-term underperformance. Only by standing against the prevailing winds - selectively, but resolutely - can an investor prosper over time. But for a while, a value investor typically underperforms.” LongValuesTermWindFoolStandingStrategyFavorsLong TermBuyingInvestorsPrevailingErrandsUnderperformance Author:Seth Klarman
“Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ... Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.” ScienceValuesTreeFoolDiseaseShadowAccountsThriveSuperstitionsAstrologyCharlatans Author:Maimonides
“If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.” IfsIdeasValuesPayPlansFoolPreparedConsumersIdiotFool Me Author:Robert Smith
“Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting to be cleared away: if you needed a bit of hair you could take it, or trim her nails if nail trimmings had value to you. Like a saint's her bones could be divided up - if anybody required them. She was going to be burnt soon, so why shouldn't everybody have what he wanted first? What a fool I had been during three years to imagine that in any way I had possessed her. We are all possessed by nobody, not even by ourselves.” IfsWayYearsFirstsSaidWantedValuesThreeBitsWaitingSawsPiecesImagineHairFoolNeededSaintRefuseBonesDividedThree YearsPossessedImagine ThatNailsTrimming Book:The End of the Affair Source: The End of the Affair