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Book cover for The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle, #4)
In fact, while we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices, we watch the battle of Borodino with them, we may even become Napoleon. Sanity returns (in most cases) when ...more
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William J. Bernstein
“human phenomenon: our species’ preference for “positively skewed outcomes”—ones with low-probability but enormous payoffs, even if the average of all payoffs is negative.”
William J. Bernstein, The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups

Eckhart Tolle
“Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease.”
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Randall Munroe
“In addition to ice skates, physicists don’t really understand what causes electric charges to build up in thunderstorms, why sand in an hourglass flows at the speed it does, or why your hair gets a static charge when you rub it with a balloon.”
Randall Munroe, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

William J. Bernstein
“Disconfirmation of deeply held beliefs causes severe psychic pain; what better way of alleviating it than in the company of newly won believers? As put by Festinger, “If more and more people can be persuaded that the system of belief is correct, then clearly it must, after all, be correct.”
William J. Bernstein, The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups

Randall Munroe
“Monarch butterflies travel thousands of miles during their migration across North America,”
Randall Munroe, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

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