The often-used phrase “pay attention” is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.
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Stefan Molyneux
The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens — tax livestock — labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.
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Stefan Molyneux
Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
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Stefan Molyneux
We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.
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Stefan Molyneux
More Quotes By Daniel Kahneman
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.
We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.
The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.
...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it describes what an agent (system 2) does than if it describes what something is, what properties it has.
