Always remember that, in a modern environment, wars last longer and kill more people than is typically planned.
Nassim Nicholas TalebA Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: stoicism
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: addiction labor laboring-class sugar wage carbohydrates wage-slavery diabesity dr-hyman dr-robert-lustig sugar-addiction sugar-the-bitter-truth
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: values post-modernism modernity values-in-life post-modern modern-values
Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: art arts creativity criticism artists academia critics art-history academics
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: ethics law corruption government lawyers modern-society modern-life modernity modernity-is-a-sickness governement courts ethical-behaviour law-and-order business-ethics court-system the-supreme-court
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: imagination art genius criticism artist academia nerd nerds genius-stupidity critics nerdery
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: politics corruption government government-corruption corporatism corporations washington-dc-politics washington-dc corporate-ethics bribery inside-job
In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: past equality history feminism equity femininity
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: fear death religion values modern modern-life narcissism modernity evangelism modern-values modernity-is-sickness
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