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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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  2. 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
  3. Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  4. Love without sacrifice is like theft – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  5. Life is about execution rather than purpose. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  6. The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science. – Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  10. What I learned on my own I still remember – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don’t talk. – Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  14. 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
  15. The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  16. English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy). – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  17. Our representation of the standard criminal might be based on the properties of those less intelligent ones who were caught. – Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  18. Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health – 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. Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate. – Mariama B
  28. Heroism of your father doesn’t make you a hero, heroism of you doesn’t make your son a hero. – Amit Kalantri
  29. With age comes wisdom and with wisdom comes age. I guess I too am growing older. – Amanda L Moritz
  30. American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age. – Marshall McLuhan
  31. The youth of today will never have the determination and the understanding of yesteryear’s youth. – Javier Enrquez Serralde
  32. Ah youth, youth! That’s what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  33. For joy alone, Carries a fountain of youth.Laughter’s music, Will wrinkle smooth.- Poem Fountain of Youth – Kari L Greenaway
  34. We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. – Franklin D Roosevelt
  35. We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future. – Franklin D Roosevelt
  36. Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up – Flora Rheta Schreiber
  37. Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization. – Jeff Jarvis
  38. 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
  39. Modernity gone wrong has isolated humanity and made human reason autonomous of (and dismissive toward) revelation. – John Mark Reynolds
  40. The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity. – Thomas C Oden

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