Quotes About Thought

A lot happened to you during the last second or two.

System 1 constructed a story, and his System 2 believed it. It happens to all of us.

The implication is clear: as the psychologist Jonathan Haidt said in another context, "The emotional tail wags the rational dog

Anything that makes it easier for the associative machine to run smoothly will also bias beliefs.

when System 2 is otherwise engaged, we will believe almost anything. System 1 is gullible and biased to believe

The mind is good with stories, but it does not appear to be well designed for the processing of time.

Although System 2 believes itself to be where the action is, the automatic System 1 is the hero of the book. I describe System 1 as effortlessly originating impressions and feelings that are the main sources of the explicit beliefs and deliberate choices of System 2. The

System 1 runs automatically and System 2 is normally in a comfortable low-effort mode, in which only a fraction of its capacity is engaged. System 1 continuously generates suggestions for System 2: impressions, intuitions, intentions, and feelings. If endorsed by System 2, impressions and intuitions turn into beliefs, and impulses turn into voluntary actions. When

Self-control and deliberate thought apparently draw on the same limited budget of effort.

Moses illusion.

the influencing of an action by the idea—is known as the ideomotor effect.

The emotional tail wags the rational dog

Suggestion and anchoring are both explained by the same automatic operation of System 1.

An inconsistency is built into the design of our mind.

I can best describe our state as a form of lethargy- an unwillingness to think about what had happened. So we carried on.

effortful mental activity appears to be especially expensive in the currency of glucose.

Reciprocal priming effects tend to produce a coherent reaction: if you were primed to think of old age, you would tend to act old, and acting old would reinforce the thought of old age.

His System 1 constructed a story, and his System 2 believed it. It happens to all of us.

Even in the absence of time pressure, maintaining a coherent train of thought requires discipline.

you were primed to think of old age, you would tend to act old, and acting old would reinforce the thought of old age.

Daniel Kahneman

The interaction of the two systems is a recurrent theme of the book, and a brief synopsis of the plot is in order.

In diesem Moment begriff er, daß niemand den Verstand benutzen wollte. Menschen wollten Ruhe. Sie wollten essen und schlafen, und sie wollten, daß man nett zu ihnen war. Denken wollten sie nicht.

This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it.