There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same

If you don't take risk for your opinions, you are nothing

Don't cross a river that is on average 4 feet deep

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

“Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse”

“What I learned on my own I still remember”

“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”

“Things always become obvious after the fact”

"You don't become completely free just by avoiding to be a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master."

"To value a person, consider the difference between how impressive he or she was at the first encounter and the most recent one".

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

"Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing"

"The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments"

"You have a calibrated life when most of what you fear has the titillating prospect of adventure."

“Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.”

“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment.

"It is much easier to summarize a book you haven't read than one you have”

“People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up”

“You are rich if and only if money you refuses tastes better than money you accept”

“Someone who says “I am busy” is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of their life) or trying to get rid of you”