People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide..

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile.

Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you..

They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in….

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary..

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, po….

Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant..

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own..

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love..

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom..

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough..

Only the autodidacts are free..

Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura ..

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits..

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in..

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules..

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee..

Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of b….

An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligen….

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking..

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion..