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“When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Common sense is no match for the voice of God.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better. ”
― Jose Saramago / ژوزه ساراماگو

“You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have”
― Jose Saramago, All the Names

“I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
― Jose Saramago

“If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory ...”
― José Saramago, The Cave

“As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.”
― Jose Saramago

“The corporation’s legally defined mandate is to pursue, relentlessly and without exception, its own self-interest, regardless of the often harmful consequences it might cause to others.”
― Joel Bakan, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

“Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.”
― Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2033

“the only thing more terrifying than blindness is being the only one who can see.”
― José Saramago, Blindness