7 Quotes by Tomáš Sedláček

The fewer things one was dependent on, the freer he felt. Thus it is here from which calls for freedom from the wants (demands) of the flesh come.

The chief thing which the common-sense individual wants is not satisfactions for the wants he had, but more, and better wants.

If a discrepancy exists between supply and demand, then for the Stoics the prescription for a happy life was to decrease demand, not to increase supply (or production), which the Hedonists saw as the prescription for a happy life.

He who gets by with few things is satisfied with few things. He who needs only a little does not have to toil as much. The ideal is not found in consumption and producing assets, but in breaking free of both.

if the prophecy were “true,” accurate, what was prophesied would often actually never happen. Therefore there is a paradox here: If we are able to anticipate problems and take appropriate measures, they do not have to occur at all.

Pokud spadne most, není to chyba matematiky, ale stavitele, který ji nesprávně aplikoval — přitom ale nemusel udělat jedinou matematickou chybu. Chyba nebývá v matematice, ale v jejím používání.

If a consumer buys something, theoretically it should rid him of one of his needs —and the aggregate of things they need should be decreased by one item. In reality, though, the aggregate of “I want to have” expands together with the growing aggregate of “I have.