Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.

There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?

Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.

The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died