Source: Save Me the Waltz
“The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.”
“The only cure for a real hangover is death.”
"Coffee Versus Gin", My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (1936)
“Death is the only fantasy that becomes real for all humans.”
"Humanity", Ch.II "Ideologies: A way to live", Part V
“In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.”
Source: The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why (1999), Chapter 13, Counterattack - The Second Wave, p. 129
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance
“A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e
Context: A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. Behaving honourably in a crisis doesn't mean being able to act the part of a hero well, as in the theatre, it means being able to look death itself in the eye.
For an actor may play lots of different roles, but at the end of it all he himself, the human being, is the one who has to die.
Source: The Way Towards The Blessed Life or the Doctrine of Religion 1806, P. 4
Futurist Ray Kurweil Bring Dead Father Back to Life http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/futurist-ray-kurzweil-bring-dead-father-back-life/story?id14267712 (2011)
