Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

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

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.