"Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious."
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219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site.
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I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's…
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Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a…
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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in…
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...maximize the serendipity around you.
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Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who…
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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d…
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the…
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Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades).…
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But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the…
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More Aesthetics Quotes
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
— Josef Albers
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition…
— Deepak Chopra
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[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes…
— Peter Vidmar
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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and…
— Albert Einstein
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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new…
— Oscar Wilde
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I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative…
— Edwin Land
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Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
— Barnett Newman
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An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful…
— Tim Benton
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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust…
— Werner Herzog
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The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science…
— Louis Althusser
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I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because…
— Sally Mann
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