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Only Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
- Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself.…
- You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship…
- Only the autodidacts are free,
- There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.
- You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.
- You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
- I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.
- I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too…
- 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…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle