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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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The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and…
Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.
Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot…
The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad…
The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of…
What’s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in…
Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the…
In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people…
People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.
We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think…
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.
When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a…

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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 — Daniel Gilbert
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