Art of life Quote by Douglas Wilson

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to tbe true in the moment.

— Byron Katie

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

— Byron Katie

“Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality.”

— Erich Fromm

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

— Simone Weil

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the…

— William James

“The chief danger of adopting a credible pose of irrationality is that to succeed in the pretense you have to be very good. After…

— Carl Sagan

“results are shocking. More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“shared weakness of some kind—some need for attachment.”

— Dennis E. Taylor

“Never underestimate the power of a “reasonable-sounding argument”, especially to people who are not scientists.”

— Angelic-Demon

“Rationality doesn’t exist; right is absence of wrongness and wrong is what seems to be unfair.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“A basic principle of science—of liberal social life—is that we kill our hypotheses rather than each other .”

— Jonathan Rauch