Gray Wolf Blog

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity……Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their ‘beliefs’……The reason is that beliefs guide behaviour, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behaviour may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

“When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns or dollars. Take your choice - there is no other.”

Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

But if you have ever been seriously ill or have received life threatening injuries in war, you know what I am about to say is true. People may be kind to you, but they also fear you because you remind them of their own mortality. The insularity the seem to create around themselves is not in your imagination. We have an atavistic sense about death, and we can smell it on others as surely as a carion bird can

Crusader’s Cross

Normally I only care for a novel if the ending is good…There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

I, for one, would rather cut off my hand than see the United States adopt the attitude either of cringing before great and powerful nations who wish to wrong us, or of bullying small and weak nations who have done us no wrong.

“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”

Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield on assets over the life of the asset;…speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.