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My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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  1. Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  2. The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  3. A prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to its conclusion. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  4. Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  5. Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  6. We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science. – Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  7. What I learned on my own I still remember – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  8. Life is about execution rather than purpose. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  9. In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  10. When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  11. Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don’t talk. – Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  12. In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  13. The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  14. English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy). – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  15. Our representation of the standard criminal might be based on the properties of those less intelligent ones who were caught. – Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  16. They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status – but rarely for your wisdom. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  17. Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  18. Love without sacrifice is like theft – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  19. Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  20. A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  21. The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds…. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  22. Being self-owned is a state of mind. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  23. Academia is to knowledge what ???????ution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  24. A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  25. The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  26. Only he who is free with his time is free with his opinion. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  27. There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits. – Billy Graham
  28. The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  29. True love will triumph in the end-”which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have. – John Green
  30. Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most. – Ian McEwan
  31. Having kids -” the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings -” is the biggest job anyone can embark on – Maria Shriver
  32. Some people say it’s easy to lie. This may be true for them, but the hard part is remembering the lie because a lie has no memory. – Virginia Vayna
  33. Divorce and separation, is the realization that, one of the two, no longer is growing his or her way to prosperity, next to that other person. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
  34. Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication. – Allan Bloom
  35. Modernity gone wrong has isolated humanity and made human reason autonomous of (and dismissive toward) revelation. – John Mark Reynolds
  36. The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity. – Thomas C Oden
  37. -¦it argues that true love will triumph in the end (which may or may not be true) but if it’s a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have! – John Green
  38. Earlier People used to hate a lieSince now lie has become truth and truth has become a lie.They still hate a lie – irrfan ishaq
  39. What is a truth and what is a lie? Is truth the mutually accepted part of a lie, or is lie a mutually denied part of truth? – Saurabh Sharma
  40. Lie. Lie. Lie. But remember.Move. Move. While others sleep, move. – Anthony ONeill

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