Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.