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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: top 300 quotes
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Love (n.) is narcissism done in sets of two.
Love (n.) , without sacrifice, is like theft.
Love (n.) is different than happiness in that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
Death (n.) is, in classical times, that about which man's worst fear is to suffer it ingloriously... the modern man's worst fear is just death itself.
Death (n.) is often a good career move for an author.
Success (n.) is, for most, a graduation from the camp of the hating to the camp of the hated.
Success's (n.) opposite isn’t failure; it is name-dropping.
Success (n.) is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood. The rest comes from loss of control.
Success (n.) is not being on top of a hierarchy, as is often believed. Rather, it is standing outside all hierarchies.
Mathematics (n.) is principally a tool to mediate, rather than to compute.
Mathematics (n.) is to knowledge what an artificial hand is to the real one; some amputate to replace.
Mathematics (n.) is not just a "numbers game", it is a way of thinking.
Hell (n.) is distinguished from heaven mostly by branding.
Business (n.) is different than science in that science is about needed to understand the world while business needs others to misunderstand it.
Asceticism's (n.) liberating effect is exemplified by the consideration that losing all your fortune is much less painful than losing only half of it.
The Humanities (n.) are useful only when trying to be useless (i.e philosophy) and dangerous when trying to be useful.
Life (n.) is not for the scientists. To ask science to explain it and other such vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
Life (n.) is unpredictability. If you know in the morning what your day looks like with any precision, you are a little bit dead. The more precision, the more dead you are.
Life (n.) is no more the purview of science than is poetry the purview of grammarians.
Life (n.) is the cumulative effect of a handful of significant shocks.
Art (n.) is a one-sided conversation with the unobserved.