“Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. This must not be forgotten.
This must be clung to because the whole consequence of a life can depend on it. The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter, these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is capable.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
This must be clung to because the whole consequence of a life can depend on it. The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter, these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is capable.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
“The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
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