83 Quotes by Daniel Gilbert

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed...

Arthritic toothless people who love orgasms are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not.

Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person.

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not.

Is happiness really the only thing we should be aiming for?

The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.