— Warren Buffet
Author: Nate
“A Philosopher is a person who loves wisdom and is dedicated to the search for meaning. The pursuit of wisdom is an active, unending process of discovery. The true philosopher is filled with the passion to understand, a process that never ends.”
The key is to choose to look away from the meanings we have been layering onto stimuli. Stop your reflexive response with awareness…
— Beau Lotto in Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently. “… as one can do when one is able to see the cause of a reflex. Someone bumps into you on the street. Your first automatic response could be: What an asshole! That is “A.” But just stop. Don’t go to A. Go to not-A. Perhaps
You become what you give your attention to …
— Epictetus … If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will.”
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity
— Hanlon’s Razor
You have to realize, your thoughts are not really your own thoughts. They percolate in from other places and from other people
— Robert Shiller “Some people are more impressionable than others. But everyone is a product of the experiences they’ve had, the people they’ve met, the people they’ve observed, the people they’ve read about, and the people around them at any given moment who are shaping their behaviors in good, bad, and ugly ways. That alone
A belief is not dangerous until it turns absolute
— Dee Hock