Maja Leibovitz

Maja’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (2358)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (310)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
books-to-read-first‎ (473)
philosophy‎ (360)
misc‎ (326)

psychology‎ (128)
neuroscience‎ (98)
mental-health‎ (89)
science‎ (81)
book-recs‎ (76)
health‎ (73)
religion‎ (71)

psychoanalysis‎ (45)
sci-fi‎ (42)
great-reads‎ (40)
fiction‎ (34)
atheism‎ (31)
criminal‎ (29)
sociology‎ (26)

behavioural-economics‎ (20)
biography‎ (13)
psychopathology‎ (13)
buddhism‎ (11)
free-will‎ (9)
book-research‎ (6)
abnormal-psychology‎ (1)

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Maja’s Quotes

“Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

tags: christianity

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“[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn't true. Our memories are constructive. They're reconstructive. Memory works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.”
― Elizabeth Loftus

tags: brains, change, editing, memories, memory, recording

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“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there.”
― Ruskin Bond

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