Greg Gerst

“You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“Compromising is condoning. The only modern dictum I follow is one by George Santayana: A man is morally free when … he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“No smile would work, no goodbye would pray, no kindness would save, if the truth inside us wasn’t beautiful. And the true heart of us, our human kind, is that we’re connected, at our best, by purities of love found in no other creature.”
― Gregory David Roberts, The Mountain Shadow

“Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram