Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

Only in recent history has “working hard” signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura.

Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else’s narrative.

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.