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

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

You need a story to displace a story.

Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.