The professional is one who can be trusted to extrapolate to new situations the ideology inherent in the official school curriculum
I leave aside the deeper concern that the primary role of mainstream economics in our society is to provide an apologetics for a criminally oppressive, unsustainable, and unjust social order
Flaubert’s advice was to hew to convention in personal matters, the better to be fierce and original in work. But the average person doesn’t do anything artistic for work
Die Epigraphik als Specialitat ist wirklich verdummend
it is a source of wonder to me how many people’s beliefs just happen to match the demands of institutional power
A man is a man before he is a philosopher, a physician or a carpenter and if you make him a reasonable and sensible man, he will make himself a reasonable and sensible philosopher, physician or carpenter
A Commentary on Cicero, De officiis
die Arbeit emanzipierte sich vom Menschen, sie schoss unübersehbare Komplexe zusammen, die mehr und mehr eigene Kräfte erzeugten und eigenen Gesetzen folgten
The best way to protect yourself from getting sick with Covid or any other respiratory illness is by getting enough sleep, nutrition and exercise
[Classical scholars] a strange breed of pedants who refuse to admit that life is short unless they can find ten parallels to prove it