73 Quotes by Kathryn Schulz

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.

If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having them… We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly — it reminds us that we know we can do better.