Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed Of Procrustes: Philosophical And Practical Aphorisms Quotes

Love without sacrifice is like theft

What I learned on my own I still remember

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

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

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators