Mikhail Costa

“Avoidance of boredom is the only worthy mode of action. Life otherwise is not worth living.)”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

“The cognitive sciences have replaced literature as the way many people attempt to understand their own minds.”
― David Brooks, The Road to Character

“Today, teachers tend to look for their students’ intellectual strengths, so they can cultivate them. But a century ago, professors tended to look for their students’ moral weaknesses, so they could correct them.”
― David Brooks, The Road to Character

“El mundo exterior era duro, implacable con los débiles, no cumplía nunca sus promesas, y el amor seguía siendo lo único en lo que todavía se podía, quizá, tener fe.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Serotonina