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I wonder if those who advocate generosity for its rewards notice the inconsistency, or if what they call generosity is an attractive investment strategy.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
There is no intermediate state between ice and water but there is one between life and death: employment.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
Someone who says “I am busy” is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else’s narrative.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
Nobody wants to be perfectly transparent; not to others, certainly not to himself.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)