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That is what happens in Ruinous Empathy—you’re so fixated on not hurting a person’s feelings in the moment that you don’t tell them something they’d be better off knowing in the long run.
“It's all too much and not enough at the same time.”
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“The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome.”
― The Grand Alliance: The Second World War, Volume 3
― The Grand Alliance: The Second World War, Volume 3
“You’ll just have to take our word for it.’ ‘Your Service’s word?’ ‘For the time being, yes.’ ‘On the strength of what? Aren’t you supposed to be the gentlemen who lie for the good of their country?’ ‘That’s diplomats. We’re not gentlemen.’ ‘So you lie to save your hides.’ ‘That’s politicians. Different game entirely.”
― Our Kind of Traitor
― Our Kind of Traitor
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs. Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, knew all about. They had instilled in them, young, a certain discipline, the sense that one lives by doing things one does not particularly want to do, by putting fears and doubts to one side, by weighing immediate comforts against the possibility of larger, even intangible, comforts.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Daniel’s 2025 Year in Books
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