Crash Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “Rationalism crashes in the tails.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crash Patriotism Rationalism Tails
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when one must be strong with rationalists, for they can reduce anything whatever to dust, if they happen not to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . .… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something. — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
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… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent,… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“A shooting star, a cloud, or some sign from the Goddess....? One second later, the world shattered. Her father's grumbling voice was suddenly cut… — T.L. Shreffler Copy Share Image
You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
It's like when we get the transformer movies. It was all a bunch of smaller robot pieces and then you're on set, and you're… — Gregory Nicotero Copy Share Image
CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
