The problem with "liberals" tagging to someone an identity/race/category to minoritify is that it makes race salient so you end up particularizing th… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

So knowledge grows by subtraction much more than by addition—given that what we know today might turn out to be wrong but what we know to be wrong cannot turn out to be right, at least not easily.

Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people who appreciate their work. The number of persons who dislike the work don’t count — there is no such thing as the opposite of buying your book,

The virtuous worry about their integrity, lesser humans (say, academics) about their reputation.