School is about dealing with certainties. Life is about the ability to handle the maximal amount of uncertainty.
By Nicholas Taleb on Black Swan Report
Aphorisms
Education
If it does not change the way you act, feel or think, no education took place
By Bill Clinton
Success
Contra the prevailing belief, “success” isn’t being on top of a hierarchy, it is standing outside all hierarchies.
Democracy
Democracy is three wolves and a lamb voting to elect a representative amongst them who decides who gets eaten.
The Sins to Remember
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.
And, of course, religion without tolerance.
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