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Mad

Pascal’s chilling reflection: “Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

– Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

As Aristotle somewhere put it: luck is when the guy next to you gets hit with the arrow.

When your brain is constantly occupied with logistics, there isn’t much room left for presence.

– Maia Niguel Hoskin, Ph.D., Medium article

The true gap of a man is the difference between who he is and who he knows he should be.

– Marcus Aurelius

Nothing can grow under big trees.

– Constantin Brâncuși

I have a great power of not listening to people.

– Nikola Jokić

Only dead fish swim downstream.

– Duško Vujošević, basketball coach

Be smart so you don’t get bad.

– Zuko Džumhur

Education, in a way, dislocates very many people from their natural talents.

– Sir Ken Robinson, TED Talk

Then I got comfortable. And comfortable is where you die.

– Jason Weiland, article on Medium