If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.
What we have currently available is what we have available.
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.
This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.
You cannot create by decrees conditions which are alien to the very character of the existing economic relations.
Opposition to the Bolsheviks
Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there.
I think you have to be a niche player. You've got to find smaller ideas that are going to benefit in the conditions as they are. You can change the conditions and always try to find ways to make money in the conditions as they exist.
