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it was through psychoanalysis that Freud was enquiring into the value and purpose and limits of so-called self-knowledge, and therefore of curiosity; subjects of course integral to the work of Musil and Mann. That unconsciously, as it were, he was asking the pragmatic question, the question so usefully redescribed by William James and Richard Rorty
... See moreAdam Phillips • On Giving Up
Our sense of our own freedom results from our not paying close attention to what it is like to be us.
Sam Harris • Free Will
Judgments of responsibility depend upon the overall complexion of one’s mind, not on the metaphysics of mental cause and effect.
Sam Harris • Free Will
Cognitive psychology is the basic science of understanding how the mind works, conducting empirical research into how people perceive, remember, and think.
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
The attentions of others might be said to matter to us principally because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value – as a result of which what others think of us comes to play a determining role in how we are able to view ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
Alain de Botton • Status Anxiety (NON-FICTION)
“Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little fi
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