My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know..
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
information
We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
people
quality people
I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or incentives for skill.
trials people work
Probability is a liberal art; it is a child of skepticism, not a tool for people with calculators on their belts to satisfy their desire to produce fancy calculations and certainties.
skepticism people art
People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.
Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.
life wisdom absence people
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them.
insults ability people
Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
poetry life science
Someone who says I am busy is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
life
Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life.
life efficacy
You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
leisure life products
I try to make money infrequently, as infrequently as possible simply because I believe that rare events are not fairly valued, and that the rarer the event, the more undervalued it will be in price.
money
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