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“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur”
Still my all time favourite
@nntaleb
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“Contra the prevailing belief, "success" isn't being on top of a hierarchy, it is standing outside all hierarchies.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“First ethical rule: If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"You don't become completely free just by avoiding to be a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master."
- Nassim Taleb
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“A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.”
- Nassim Taleb
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“People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up.”
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
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"You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept."
- Nassim Taleb
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“Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions.”
- Nassim Taleb
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“The man who has a garden and a library has everything.”
― Cicero
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"Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions."
- Nassim Taleb
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“If you do not take risks for your opinion, you are nothing.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.”
- Nassim Taleb
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
- Karl Popper
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“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
- Nassim Taleb
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“Too much success is the enemy, too much failure is demoralizing.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
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“The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.”
― Nassim Taleb
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“it is only when you don’t care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
― Michel de Montaigne
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To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
- Nassim Taleb
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"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception."
- Carl Sagan
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Comfort is a drug. Once you get used to it, it becomes addictive. Give a weak person consistent stimulation, good food, cheap entertainment, and they’ll throw their ambitions out of the window. The comfort zone is where dreams go to die.
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"To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers."
-
@nntaleb
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They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
- Nassim Taleb
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“Men destroy each other during war, themselves during peacetime.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference”
― Nassim Taleb
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"Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small."
- Felix Dennis
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“So just as Stoicism is the domestication, not the elimination, of emotions, so is the barbell a domestication, not the elimination, of uncertainty.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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🗣️ Quotes & Aphorisms
“Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
- Machiavelli
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“for Mother Nature, opinions and predictions don’t count; surviving is what matters.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“The excess energy released from overreaction to setbacks is what innovates!”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
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This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is risky, that it is a bad thing—and that eliminating randomness is done by eliminating randomness.
- Nassim Taleb
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People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up.
- Nassim Taleb
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“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”
-
@nntaleb
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“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
― Michel de Montaigne
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“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
― Michel de Montaigne
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
- Michel de Montaigne
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“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
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For a thinking person, the most serious mental illness is not being sure of who you are.
- Benoit Mandelbrot
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🗣️| Quotes & Aphorisms
Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.
- Nassim Taleb
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“They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“First ethical rule: If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Wisdom in the young is as unattractive as frivolity in the elderly.
- Nassim Taleb
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“There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.”
― Michel de Montaigne
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"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."
- Carl Sagan
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“It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her."
- Cicero
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"Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head"
- Michel de Montaigne
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Don’t complain too loud about wrongs done you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.
- Nassim Taleb
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“You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
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🗣️ Quotes & Aphorisms
If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.
- Nassim Taleb
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"I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older."
- Michel de Montaigne
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“What I learned on my own I still Remember.”
- Nassim Taleb
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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero
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“The problem with information is not that it is diverting and generally useless, but that it is toxic.”
― Nassim Taleb
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🗣️ QUOTE 🗣️
"A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading."
- Nassim Taleb
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“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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You don’t become completely free by just avoiding to be a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.
- Nassim Taleb, Bed of Procrustes
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“Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Esse quam videri - "To be, rather than to seem (to be)”
- Cicero
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Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.
- Nassim Taleb
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
― Cicero
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
- Nassim Taleb
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It's not the lack of intelligence, it's the lack of focus that is stopping you.
- Richard Feynman
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F*ck you money is an attitude, not an amount in the bank...
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It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.
- Nassim Taleb
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- Michel de Montaigne
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We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne
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The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.
- Cicero
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🗣️ Quotes
“Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The Tocqueville Effect
Transparency solves problems while making them appear worse.
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“People calculate too much and think too little.”
― Charles T. Munger
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“Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions.”
- Nassim Taleb
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"Too many things together produce noise, and noise is not a tool of knowledge."
- Umberto Eco
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“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.”
- Nassim Taleb
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Joe Norman (
@normonics
) will be joining us for a LIVE Q&A on Friday 19th March Midnight GMT / 7pm EST / 4pm PCT.
Come say hi to Joe and ask him your questions on Complexity, Homesteading, and more...
Invite link:
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