Quotes | Fat Tony's

"This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most."

- Nassim Taleb

"I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity."

- Nassim Taleb

"To bankrupt a fool, give him information."

- Nassim Taleb

"He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once."

- Nassim Taleb

"Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake."

- Nassim Taleb

"The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death."

- Nassim Taleb

"The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects."

- Nassim Taleb

"If you do not take risks for your opinion, you are nothing."

- Nassim Taleb

"Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions."

- Nassim Taleb

"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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