Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.
The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order.
Life is filled with trapdoors.
I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.
For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers.
Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
