Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates-and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let me explain.

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.