The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

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

The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune. The fact that we can make disastrous decisions even as we foresee their consequences is the great, unsolved mystery of human behavior. When you hold your fate in your hands, why would you ever make a fist?

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

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.

Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.

In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.