Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

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"Our sense of self is constructed partly from the choices we make."
Ariely, Dan
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"We are creatures who seek meaning, even where none exists."
Ariely, Dan
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"We all carry invisible scripts that guide our behavior."
Ariely, Dan
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"Understanding human nature means accepting our contradictions."
Ariely, Dan
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"Our sense of identity is more fluid than we think."
Ariely, Dan
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"The meaning of our lives is constructed through the choices we make."
Ariely, Dan
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"We are all searching for meaning in an indifferent universe."
Ariely, Dan
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"Probability is a language for describing uncertainty in the world."
Gigerenzer, Gerd
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"Uncertainty is not a weakness but a fundamental feature of existence."
Gigerenzer, Gerd
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"Numbers alone cannot answer moral and ethical questions."
Gigerenzer, Gerd
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"Understanding probability is understanding the structure of reality."
Gigerenzer, Gerd
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"We are not rational beings; we are rationalizing beings."
Tversky, Amos
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"We underestimate how much our environment shapes our behavior."
Tversky, Amos
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"The narrative fallacy makes us construct stories to explain randomness."
Tversky, Amos
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"We see intentionality even in random events."
Tversky, Amos
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"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Pollock, John
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"Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom."
Pollock, John
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"Humans are not computers. We have emotions, limitations, and cognitive biases that shape our decisions."
Thaler, Richard
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"Emotions influence our rational judgments far more than we like to admit."
Thaler, Richard
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"The best decisions come from combining emotional wisdom with rational analysis."
Thaler, Richard
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"Behavioral insights suggest that people are both rational and irrational, selfish and fair-minded."
Thaler, Richard
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"The interplay between emotion and reason is where real human decision-making happens."
Thaler, Richard
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"The basic idea in case-based reasoning is that the human mind works by remembering examples."
Harman, Gilbert
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"The mind is fundamentally a system of representations."
Harman, Gilbert
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"We must distinguish between what we think and what we can justify."
Harman, Gilbert
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"Semantic content depends on how thoughts are causally related to the world."
Harman, Gilbert
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"Epistemology without attention to psychology is incomplete."
Harman, Gilbert
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"Intuition pump arguments reveal deep assumptions in our thinking."
Harman, Gilbert
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"Representation is central to all cognition."
Harman, Gilbert
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"Logical form does not determine meaning."
Harman, Gilbert