'Modernity' Ideas

We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

That’s the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

Joseph Kosinski

To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want.

Charlie Munger

Achievement Deserving Success

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Jean Cocteau

Deception Perception Reality

Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.

Jean Cocteau

Identity Individuality Rebellion

The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about.

Charlie Munger

Worry

It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.

Charlie Munger

Criticism Past Stupidity

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