“As a general rule, people are much more naive and simple-hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are too.” In Dostoevsky’s time there were no TED talks, that was probably a good thing. But on the other hand, people didn’t need TED talks since they could say whatever they wanted…

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” We wake up every day under the shadow of our absurd acts. We reach an age where our dreams start to dissolve inside the machine of…

“There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.” In 1486, Niccolo Machiavelli’s father got him a job at Subaico printing press. The Subiaco Press was a printing press located in Subiaco, Italy. The Press was established in 1464 by the German monks Arnold Pannartz and Konrad Sweynheim in…

“Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.” It was −8 °C degree in Berlin and Marcuse was pedaling across the city with his thermal delivery bag on his back; a modern hamster on a wheel taking orders on his smart phone…

“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” I have lost touch with reality and I had to keep moving in order to maintain this necessary evil. I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found. Being tied up…

“The metropolis city is a jungle and there ain’t no such thing as driving calm in a Bugatti.” The metropolis has always been the seat of money economy because the diverseness and centralization of commercial activity have given the medium of exchange a significance which it could not have acquired…

“Love is never free. There is always a price to pay for what each partner is giving or receiving.” The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who commodified Valentine’s Day. Love is never free. There is always a price to pay for what each partner is giving…

“In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.” Rumi stumbled out of Casino Balkh at 7 AM sharp after losing his last Dirham. He adored living life on the wild side. “Everything has its price” he claimed, that’s why he lost his golden bracelets, rings…

“A woman sees in the world what she carries in her phone.” In 1775, Goethe was invited on the strength of his fame as the author of The Sorrows of Young Werther to the court of Karl August, the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Goethe thus went to live in Weimar, where…