Hell Is Other People Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image ““We are social animals; hell is other people.”” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hell Is Other People
“Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“There’s an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“See, I was raised in Hell. You could say I'm socially awkward.” — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
“We weren't creatures from another planet. We were creatures from Hell.” — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human.” — Stephen Richards 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
“College campuses are populated by and endless throng of happy, dancing, fully conversational creatures who seem to exist from the sole purpose of reinforcing… — Jacqueline Novak Copy Share Image
“There’s an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If Hell is other people, thought Shadow, then Purgatory is airports.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Accept myself, and expect more of myself. Give myself limits to give myself freedom. Make people happier by acknowledging that they’re not feeling happy.… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Believe me, it is tough to deal with the social consequences of the appearance of continuous failure. We are social animals; hell is other… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Some 1,300 years later, the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre metaphorically spat on the notion of communal bliss by declaring, “Hell is other people.” — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
