Quotes About Introspection

Self-criticism is one of the functions of System 2. In the context of attitudes, however, System 2 is more of an apologist for the emotions of System 1 than a critic of those emotions—an endorser rather than an enforcer.

Most impressions and thoughts arise in your conscious experience without your knowing how they got there.

for System 1 in making routine decisions. The best we can do is a compromise: learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes when the stakes are high. The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

Constantly questioning our own thinking would be impossibly tedious, and System 2 is much too slow and inefficient to serve as a substitute for System 1 in making routine decisions. The best we can do is a compromise: learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes when the stakes are high. The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

Much like the electricity meter outside your house or apartment, the pupils offer an index of the current rate at which mental energy is used.

Unfortunately, she tends to say the first thing that comes into her mind. She probably also has trouble delaying gratification. Weak System 2.

You may believe that you are subtler, more insightful, and more nuanced than the linear caricature of your thinking. But in fact, you are mostly noisier.

Wann immer einen die Dinge erschreckten, sei es eine gute Idee, sie zu messen.

?i noi to?i, care ne uitam în sus, am în?eles deodat? ce înseamn? lejeritatea. Am în?eles cum poate fi via?a pentru unul care face cu adev?rat ce î?i dore?te, nu crede în nimic ?i nu ascult? de nimeni. Am priceput cum ar fi s? fii un astfel de om ?i am mai priceput c? noi nu vom fi niciodat? astfel de oameni.

The eyes are not windows. There are nerve impulses, but no one reads them, counts them, translates them, and ruminates about them. Hunt for as long as you want, there's nobody home. The world is contained within you, and you're not there.

Of course it didn't prove anything of the sort, it merely showed that self-examination disturbs the personality, deflects the will, and zaps the mind; it proved that no one, seen clearly from the outside, resembles themselves at all.

Pitao sam se da li bi ljudi koji tako rado govore o dostojanstvu u ovakvoj situaciji mogli sa?uvati red i pristojnost. Što se mene ti?e, ja sam ostao na tepihu ose?aju?i da živim trenutak u kome mi je sve potaman, u kome nisam pocepan, u kome sam u sebi jedinstven i spokojan. A onda mi je u deli?u sekunde na pamet pala misao da i u ovoj sobi možda postoji kamera, a sa njom se odmah pojavio i Laurin lik i ose?aj krivice što je varam i stalno lažem.

Qualche volta bisogna avere il coraggio di ritirarsi

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

Why am I always looking at life through a window?

I see now that the path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many ways—and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.

If a man cannot invest his life, or any part of it, with meaning, all he has left are distractions from meaninglessness, although few of us acknowledge them as such.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

life's meaning is not something to look for but something to create myself

To begin, a man who aspires to this kind of personal honesty must throw off all interpretations of himself that depend on anything that supposedly transcends his life, such as a god or a soul. Man exists here in this world, so that must be his point of departure. Staying free from his psychological and intellectual inheritance will be a continual struggle for him, an ever-lurking danger.

The meaning of life is not something we look for, it is something we create. And by contemplating suicide, we can be fully present at our own creation.

Nietzsche believed that what this man will find deep inside is not very pretty. He wrote that if I am diligent, in my depths I will discover my "madman," "immoralist," "buffoon," and "criminal." Only then, Nietzsche said, will I finally tune in on something of value. Then I will be ready to actualize my true nature.

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