Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Modernity Quotes

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Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.

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

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My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

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Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

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I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism

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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

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Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

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