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The idea of the single, homogeneous, authentic people is a fantasy; as the philosopher Jürgen Habermas once put it, “the people” can only appear in the plural. And it’s a dangerous fantasy, because populists do not just thrive on conflict
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“Ogni singolo ente è un aggregato, perché la logica dell’essere è la relazione.”
― Etica per giorni difficili
― Etica per giorni difficili
“global events may affect the stock prices of high-quality companies but not their business strength; the fact that investors were dumping stocks was not a problem but an opportunity; businesses’ market valuations may take a hit but not their intrinsic value; the opportunity cost of not investing in troubled times far exceeds any near-term pain owing to notional losses.”
― What I Learned About Investing from Darwin
― What I Learned About Investing from Darwin
“Il compito più importante della vita è il lavoro sull’irrazionalità, sul sentimento, sulla passione: su quella parte di noi che ci può far esplodere oppure implodere e da cui dipende sostanzialmente la felicità. Il compito più importante della vita è il lavoro interiore.”
― Etica per giorni difficili
― Etica per giorni difficili
“Poverty cannot be abolished by formula; it can be abolished only by hard and intelligent work.”
― My Life and Work
― My Life and Work
“You can hardly have too much harmony in business. But you can go too far in picking men because they harmonize. You can have so much harmony that there will not be enough of the thrust and counterthrust which is life—enough of the competition which means effort and progress. It is one thing for an organization to be working harmoniously toward one object, but it is another thing for an organization to work harmoniously with each individual unit of itself. Some organizations use up so much energy and time maintaining a feeling of harmony that they have no force left to work for the object for which the organization was created. The organization is secondary to the object. The only harmonious organization that is worth anything is an organization in which all the members are bent on the one main purpose—to get along toward the objective. A common purpose, honestly believed in, sincerely desired—that is the great harmonizing principle.”
― My Life and Work
― My Life and Work
Gian Mario Deidda’s 2025 Year in Books
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