Dostoevsky, the only psychologist from whom I’ve anything to learn… he ranks amongst the most beautiful strokes of fortune in my life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

While the system is little the architect makes sure the system has just the right little architecture. As the system grows, the architect makes sure the architecture keeps pace.

— Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres, Extreme Programming Explained

All the labor-saving machinery that has hitherto been invented has not lessened the toil of a single human being.

— John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy

That labor is the sole source of wealth seems to be a doctrine as dangerous as it is false, as it unhappily affords a handle to those who would represent all property as belonging to the working classes, and the share which is received by others as a robbery or fraud upon them.

— John Cazenove, Outlines of Political Economy

Ideology divided the world up simplistically into those who thought and acted properly, and those who did not. Ideology enabled the believer to hide from his own unpleasant and inadmissible fantasies and wishes.

— JORDAN B. PETERSON, Maps of Meaning