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December 16 - December 22, 2017
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
In classical renderings of prominent figures, males are lean and females are plump; in modern photographs, the opposite.
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Studying neurobiology to understand humans is like studying ink to understand literature.
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Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators.
If you want to annoy a poet, explain
his poetry.
ETHICS If you find any reason why you and someone are friends, you are not friends.
Soldiers are more loyal to their comrades (and willing to die for them) than to their country. Academics are more loyal to their peers than to truth. My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal.*1 People reveal much more about themselves while lying than when they tell the truth. If we are the only animal with a sense of justice, it would clearly be because we also are about the only animal with a sense of cruelty. Life’s beauty: the kindest act toward you in your life may come from an
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Soldiers are more loyal to their comrades (and willing to die for them) than to their country. Academics are more loyal to their peers than to truth. My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal.*1 People reveal much more about themselves while lying than when they tell the truth. If we are the only animal with a sense of justice, it would clearly be because we also are about the only animal with a sense of cruelty. Life’s beauty: the kindest act toward you in your life may come from an
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Soldiers are more loyal to their comrades (and willing to die for them) than to their country. Academics are more loyal to their peers than to truth. My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal.*1 People reveal much more about themselves while lying than when they tell the truth. If we are the only animal with a sense of justice, it would clearly be because we also are about ...
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It is a great compliment for an honest person to be mistaken for a crook by a crook.
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So when a dishonest person accuses an honest person of dishonesty, that is actually a compliment.
We are most motivated to help those who need us the least.
Supposedly, if you are uncompromising or intolerant with BS you lose friends. But you will also make friends, better friends.
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To value a person, consider the difference between how impressive he or she was at the first encounter and the most recent one.
Anything people do, write, or say to enhance their status beyond what they give others shows like a mark on their foreheads, visible to others but not to them.
Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone.
True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing.
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The difference between the politician and the philosopher is that, in a debate, the politician doesn’t try to convince the other side, only the audience.
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We find it to be in extremely bad taste for individuals to boast of their accomplishments; but when countries do so we call it “national pride.”
Another marker for charlatans: they don’t voice opinions that can get them in trouble.
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You can only convince people who think they can benefit from being convinced.
Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
Never call someone an imbecile (or a fucking idiot) unless he causes harm to others/system; there must be a moral dimension to insults.
Never take advice from a salesman, or any advice that benefits the advice giver.
Your duty is to scream those truths that one should shout but that are merely whispered.
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.
It is quite a predicament to be both evil and risk-averse. Even the cheapest misers can be generous with advice. If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth. It is easy for others, but not for you, to detect the asymmetry between what you gain and what you give by doing, writing, or saying.
You may outlive your strength, never your wisdom.
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Something shoddy: citizenship of convenience, holding the passport of a country for ease of travel or tax treatment without committing to its community.
Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.
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Any action one takes with the aim of winning an award, any award, corrupts to the core.
Religions and ethics have evolved from promising heaven if you do good, to promising heaven while you do good, to making you promise to do good.
Avoid calling heroes those who had no other choice.
There are those who will thank you for what you gave them and others who will blame you for what you did not give them.
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Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession. This has been rarer and rarer since the Middle Ages.
A prostitute who sells her body (temporarily) is vastly more honorable than someone who sells his opinion for promotion or job tenure.
I trust everyone except those who tell me they are trustworthy.
People often need to suspend their self-promotion, and have someone in their lives they do not need to impress. This explains dog ownership.
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Trust those who are greedy for money
a thousand times more than those who are greedy for credentials.
Pure generosity is when you help the ingrate. Every other form is self-serving.*4
I wonder if crooks can conceive that honest people can be shrewder than they.
Trust those who trust you and distrust those who are suspicious of others.
Virtue is when the income you wish to
show the tax agency exceeds what you wish to show your neighbor.
The difference between magnificence and arrogance is in what one does when nobody is looking. Accept the rationality of time, never its fairness and morality.
The nation-state: apartheid without political incorrectness.
The bottom half has typically been screwed by the middle class. That’s the entire story of Rome.
Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.
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