“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”

“We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.”

“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.”

“...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it describes what an agent (system 2) does than if it describes what someth...”

“The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.”

“Characteristics of System 1: generates impressions, feelings, and inclinations; when endorsed by System 2 these become beliefs, attitudes, and intentions operates automatically and quickly, with ...”

“Don't just stand there and nod. The mind observes and cogitates, the heart engages, and I would encourage you to engage with the process.”

“The necessary and needful reaction from the collective unconscious expresses itself in archetypally formed ideas. The meeting with oneself is, at first, the meeting with one's own shadow. The shado...”

“The unconscious no sooner touches us than we are itwe become unconscious of ourselves. That is the age-old danger, instinctively known and feared by primitive man, who himself stands so very close ...”