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Kiril
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“It seems to me that here, accidentally, I have betrayed the greatest and ultimate secret of style: we have to know how to delight in the word. If literature generally dares to speak, it is not at all because it is certain of its truth, but only because it is certain of its delight.”
― Diary
― Diary
“Truth does not make itself real in an abstract contest of ideas, but in a collision of persons. Being condemned to read a fair amount of books filled only with arguments, I know what truth severed from the person is: a laborious truth. And that is why I turn to you with the plea: Do not allow an idea to grow in you at the price of your personality.”
― Diary
― Diary
“The history of culture indicates that stupidity is the twin sister of reason, it grows most luxuriously not on the soil of virgin ignorance, but on soil cultivated by the sweat of doctors and professors.”
― Diary
― Diary
“The Irish do have a despairing quality of gaiety, but they have also a dour and brooding ghost that rides on their shoulders and peers in on their thoughts.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“At the heart of the first set of capabilities is Polyani’s Paradox, which refers to a comment made by chemist and philosopher Michael Polyani that ‘We know more than we can tell’. In other words, a significant amount of human knowledge is tacit and therefore cannot be written down in the form of instructions, so cannot be replicated by AI and robotics.”
― The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
― The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
Kiril’s 2025 Year in Books
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82 books
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6 friends
91 books
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2 friends
49 books
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11 books
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4 friends
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