"The word happiness is used to indicate at……" — Daniel Gilbert
"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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56 Quotes by Daniel Gilbert
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Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not…
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Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the…
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The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will.…
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The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room,…
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What’s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do…
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Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won?…
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In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths…
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People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to…
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We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things…
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Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.
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When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set…
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We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our…
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