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Things Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- 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…
- Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.
- Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
- Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.
- 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…
- Things always become obvious after the fact
- They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding…
- If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there…
- Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic…
- Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also…
- I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle