Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quote

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our sp...

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...

It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.

Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.

If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.