Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
What I learned on my own I still remember — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for female — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds writte — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist- — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (direct — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely fo — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Love without sacrifice is like theft — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly th — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bank — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms