"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 naÃ¯ve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism"

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Mother Quotes #Humility Quotes #Years Quotes

“I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once they get that, love, beauty, everything else goes out the window. All they have left is cold disdain; that's what marriages live on nowadays. Sometimes I see women who ought to be happy, with whom I could have found companionship, already swallowed up by brutes with as much feeling as an old log....”

Source : Arthur Rimbaud (2017). “A Season in Hell”, p.24, BookRix
“Personally I do not believe in the likelihood of Persian oil deposits being worked at profit.”
“I was influenced by a lot of stand-up comedians... Eddie Murphy back when he was doing 'Raw.' I watched that so many times as a kid, I can probably still quote the entire thing to this day. Chris Rock. Dave Chappelle. George Carlin. A lot of the guys who were sort of edgy for their time.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I love movies and I think that we wouldn't ever stop making videos just because people aren't watching them. I think that's just kinda sad. It would be cool to spend a lot of money, but we'll always make videos just for ourselves.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.”
“Passion is a rare commodity. When you find it, treasure it and never give it up!”

Source : Interview with Gabrielle Reilly, www.theglobaltownhall.com.
“The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.”
“As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.”

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