Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author, Statistician
"Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love."
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Academia
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Slavoj Žižek
Philosopher, Cultural Critic
"A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life."
Paul Smith
Fashion Designer
"Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author, Statistician
"Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing."
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"[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the respects just mentioned."
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