Noam Lerner

“someone must suffer, if the rest are to enjoy luxury.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“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

“We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“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