Hatred is love with a typo somewhere in the computer code, correctable but very hard to find. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is something nonphilosophical about investing one’s pride and ego into a “my house/ library/ car is bigger than that of others in my category” — it is downright foolish to claim to be first in one’s category all the while sitting on a time bomb.

A sign of development for a country is in the lack of prestige for government officials.

Soldiers are more loyal to their comrades and die for them, than to their country. Academics are more loyal to their peers than to truth.