“Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.”
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.”
― Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
― Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
“the function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange; not so much to make wonders facts as to make facts wonders.”
― The Defendant
― The Defendant
“Excuses make today easy, but they make tomorrow hard.
Discipline makes today hard, but it makes tomorrow easy.”
―
Discipline makes today hard, but it makes tomorrow easy.”
―
Effective Altruists
— 648 members
— last activity Mar 16, 2025 02:47PM
Recommend books, see what other people are reading, start a discussion, what have you. N.B. This group is not actively moderated and doesn't have any ...more
Greg’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Greg’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Greg
Lists liked by Greg

















