Quotes | Fat Tony's

"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."

- Carl Sagan

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."

- Carl Sagan

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

- Carl Sagan

"Nothing demoralizes like uncertainty."

- Shay Hill

"A Stoic is a Buddhist with attitude, one who says “f*** you” to fate."

- Nassim Taleb

"My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism"

- Nassim Taleb

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

- Marcus Aurelius

"A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading."

- Nassim Taleb

"Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions."

- Nassim Taleb

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

- Cicero

"We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions."

- Nassim Taleb

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

- Nassim Taleb

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Nassim Taleb

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

- Nassim Taleb

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

- Cicero

"Fate shuffles the cards and we play."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

- Nassim Taleb

"Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake."

- Nassim Taleb

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