Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Man Quotes

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A man is morally free when... he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.

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A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.

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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

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A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.

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Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession.

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I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.

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The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

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