Noam Lerner

“We will have set her free … to struggle for survival along with everyone else. But that is better than the illusion of safety in a gilded cage, is it not?”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“You couldn’t spell obligation if I shoved the letters up your ass.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“The distinction between two selves is applied to the measurement of well-being, where we find again that what makes the experiencing self happy is not quite the same as what satisfies the remembering self. How two selves within a single body can pursue happiness raises some difficult questions, both for individuals and for societies that view the well-being of the population as a policy objective.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“the provocative claim that our inborn readiness to separate physical and intentional causality explains the near universality of religious beliefs. He observes that “we perceive the world of objects as essentially separate from the world of minds, making it possible for us to envision soulless bodies and bodiless souls.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow