Siddharth Daga

“Feelings are thus not the opposite of rationality - they embody evolutionary rationality.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“The main handicap of authoritarian regimes in the twentieth century - the attempt to concentrate all information in one place - might become their decisive advantage in the twenty-first cenutry.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses its relevance.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“He’s twelve years old, and this summer he learns that people will always choose a simple lie over a complicated truth, because the lie has one unbeatable advantage: the truth always has to stick to what actually happened, whereas the lie just has to be easy to believe.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You