372 quotes found
“You know, it is sometimes an ideal not to have any kind of convictions or feelings that are not based upon reality. One must even educate people...that their emotions ought to have a real basis, th...”
“In life, the people whom you find the most challenging inevitably are the ones who have the most to teach you.”
“They had an ugly look to one as prone to disgust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me.”
“Awareness is the novelty of our youth”
“Jungian psychology built upon a numinous sandcastle-of-gilded- abstractions, reflects modernitys transcendental reinstatement of Theosophy into an archetypal, pseudo-scientific conflation of mystic...”
“The bigger the front, the bigger the back.”
“So, for example, Bell is mesmerized by a screen saver that draws on his personal archive to display random snapshots. Pictures of long-ago birthdays and family trips trigger waves of nostalgia. But...”
“Mobile technology has made each of us "pausable.”
“Pete says that his online marriage is an essential part of his "life mix." I ask him about this expression. I have never heard it before. Pete explains that the life mix is the mash-up of what you ...”
“We judge ourselves by our intentions but others by their actions. We tend to think other people's mistakes are caused by character flaws while our mistakes are due to situational factors. "I had a ...”
“The very fact that we now design and manufacture robot companions for the elderly marks a turning point. We ask technology to perform what used to be "love's labor": taking care of each other.”
“There is something improbably about the silence in the [subway] carriage, considering how naturally gregarious we are as a species. Still, how much kinder it is for the commuters to pretend to be a...”
“A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.”
“Try and set yourself the task not to think of a white bear, and the cursed thing comes to mind every minute.”
“In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.”
“It is fascinating to discover that individuals who are asked to assign a punishment to a criminal are influenced by factors that they are unaware of (like the presence of a flag in the room) or tha...”
“By far, the most important distortions and confabulations of memory are those that serve to justify and explain our own lives. The mind, sense-making organ that it is, does not interpret our experi...”
“To show how memory changes to fit our story, psychologists study how memories evolve over time: if your memories of the same people change, becoming positive or negative spending on what is happeni...”
“The mistake we make in thinking of character as something unified and all-encompassing is very similar to a kind of blind spot in the way we process information. Psychologists call this tendency th...”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.”
