Daniel Gilbert Short Quotes

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People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.

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Arthritic toothless people who love orgasms are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not.

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The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

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Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

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In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.

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Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist's hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

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Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

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My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.

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Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one.

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The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

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We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy

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Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us.

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"Dangerous" does not mean exciting or bold; it means likely to cause great harm. The most dangerous idea is the only dangerous idea: The idea that ideas can be dangerous.

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The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

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Heider began by assuming that just as objects have enduring qualities that determine their appearances, so people have stable psychological characteristics that determine their behavior.

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Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person.

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