The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.

I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace.

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.