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The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Love without sacrifice is like theft”
“Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears”
“What I learned on my own I still remember”
“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”
“They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.”
“Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.”
“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.”
“A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see”
“The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist”
“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur”
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