“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 27
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Quotes about life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing …”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 84
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 26
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 84
“Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 64
“You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 39
“Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 29
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 41
“Half of life—the interesting half of life—we don't even have a name for.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 33
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. xxix
which they do not control
Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5d5aa24e-23a4-11de-996a-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1, Financial Times, 2009-04-07.
Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world (2009)
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 17
Source: Skin in the Game (2018), p. 185