"What’s so curious about human beings is that……" — Daniel Gilbert
"What’s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in the present to stop it. The majority of people on this planet, they’re overwhelmed with concerns about their immediate well being."
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56 Quotes by Daniel Gilbert
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The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral…
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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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