Joshua

“Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

“The Liberal still speaks, at least on formal occasions, of “eternal verities,” of “faith,” of “human dignity,” of man’s “high calling” or his “unquenchable spirit,” even of “Christian civilization”; but it is quite clear that these words no longer mean what they once meant. No Liberal takes them with entire seriousness; they are in fact metaphors, ornaments of language that are meant to evoke an emotional, not an intellectual, response—a response largely conditioned by long usage, with the attendant memory of a time when such words actually had a positive and serious meaning.”
― Eugene (Fr. Seraphim) Rose, Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age

“Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"
-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872”
― Otto von Bismarck

“Only the autodidacts are free.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder