Author: Matthew Freedman

Just because you don’t know the name of something, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a name. And even if it doesn’t have a name, that doesn’t mean you have the right to name it once you’ve discovered it.

When giants topple, people of all sizes also fall.

For sailors, anything less than a 100% success rate is unacceptable.

Tacit agreements are future arguments.

A trip of 14 days is rarely two times better than one of seven.

It’s physically impossible to read philosophy without smoking a cigarette. Ergo, philosophy can kill you.

Reading poetry is like walking along the circular streets of someone else’s imagination — but only if other people’s brains are similar to Parisian boulevards and only if reading is similar to moving one’s legs.

The tourist travels perpetually into the past. The flâneur wanders forward with the present into the future.

Life is the process through which we learn what we already know.

Fail small, fail fast, and fail often.