Daniel Kahneman: Uncertainty & Loss Aversion

Love without sacrifice is like theft. ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The person who doesn’t read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards. ― Umberto Eco

Negativity has triumphed over positivity. In place of love, forgiveness, kindness, and the kingdom of heaven, today’s apocalyptic environmentalism offers fear, anger, and the narrow prospects of avoiding extinction. ― Michael Shellenberger

The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore,

The enemy has always known that if they can get control of a population's beliefs and values, they can control that population. — Lyndon Larouche

The more models you have in your head, the more you can pick and choose and use the appropriate model for the problem. — Charlie Munger. wisdomtheory.gumroad.com/l/100MM

Do everything in love. — 1 Corinthians 16:14

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. ― Charles Darwin

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ― Socrates

Human nature is only creative when it learns to enjoy the uncertainties of liberty. — Antonio Escohotado (In Memoriam)

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine. — Sir James Jeans

The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement, but the opposite of a great truth may be another great truth. ― Bruce Rosenblum

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think. ― Socrates

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As Kurzban has summarized this finding, “We think we're better than average at not being biased in thinking that we're better than average.” — Robert Wright

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ― Joseph Campbell

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. ― Joseph Campbell

Market means freedom to produce and freedom to consume. To attack it is to attack the autonomy of the will. — Antonio Escohotado (In Memoriam)