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One Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline…
- I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
- The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.
- If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them…
- Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a…
- In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers…
- The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
- I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
- Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
- I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
- People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including…
- It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.
- Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life;…
- If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go…
- If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle