#vs

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#enfp-vs-intj #flirting #game #nerd #nerdiness

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#intellectual-sophistication #internet #irony #nerd #nerdery

Jack London and Ernest Hemingway, confidence swaggering into the storm: Man against Nature. Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this much: Man loses. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#education

But this was the real world wasn't it? Miracles must happen in some parallel universe. ↗

— Clyde Dsouza

#science-vs-religion #singularity #transhumanism #religion

He's Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn't trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don't know where evil comes from, and frankly it doesn't matter. Not right now. Histories and myths are renamed and reinvented eternally across the world. I can't speak to that. What I do know? This is your story. ↗

— Leanna Renee Hieber

#history #myth #religion #beauty

Precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the hearth knows how to find what is precious ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#karamazov-bothers #home

Which is the more useful, the scientific world-view, with all its wonderful technical miracles, or the religious world-view, with its sense of purpose and belonging? ↗

— Chris Beckett

#religion

All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#bloodlines #supernatural #vampires #supernatural

Man is sometimes extraordinary, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#love

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#disease #fyodor-dostoyevsky #illness #intellect #notes-from-the-underground