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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE
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You cannot express the holy in terms made for the profane, but you can discuss the profane in terms made for the holy.
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Atheism (materialism) means treating the dead as if they were unborn. I won’t. By accepting the sacred, you reinvent religion.
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If you can’t spontaneously detect (without analyzing) the difference between sacred and profane, you’ll never know what religion means. You will also never figure out what we commonly call art. You will never understand anything.
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People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.
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To mark a separation between holy and profane, I take a ritual bath after any contact, or correspondence (even emails) , with consultants, economists, Harvard Business School professors, journalists, and those in similarly depraved pursuits; I then feel and act purified from the profane until the next episode.
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The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane: everything else on your eyelids manipulates you with an ad.
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You can replace lies with truth; but myth is only displaced with a narrative.
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The sacred is all about unconditionals; the profane is all about conditionals.
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The source of the tragic in history is in mistaking someone else’s unconditional for conditional—and the reverse.
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Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules (e.g., avoid debt). People can understand the notion of God, not unexplained rules, interdicts, and categorical heuristics.
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One categorical: it is easier to fast than diet. You cannot be “slightly” kosher or halal by only eating a small portion of ham.
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To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.
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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 机遇、成功、幸福与坚忍
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成功就是在中年时成为你在少年时梦想成为的那个人，别的都是失控导致的结果。
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成功的反义词不是失败，而是把成功人士的名字时时挂在嘴边炫耀。
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现代人需要弄清楚，“富有”和“变得富有”在数学层面、个人层面、社会层面和伦理层面上不是一回事。
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要获得彻底的自由，你不仅需要避免成为奴隶，还需要避免成为奴隶主。
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命运惩罚贪婪者的方式是让他贫穷，惩罚特别贪婪者的方式是让他富有。
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绝大多数人自杀是因为羞耻，或者是因为经济与社会地位的丧失，不是因为被确诊患了绝症。
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“财富”是一个没有意义的词，因为它没法准确衡量；不如换用“缺乏财富”这个词，意思是在任一时刻，你所拥有的和你想要拥有的之间的差距。
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年长的人最美丽的时候，是他们拥有了年轻人所缺乏的东西的时候：雍容，博学，智慧，经验，以及波澜不惊的平静。
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我去参加一场幸福研讨会，结果发现与会者看上去都很不幸福。
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