…what is seeing without thinking. We think of seeing as simple contact with reality. But when we see objects repeatedly, to the point of familiarity, they become invisible; the use of the mind, beyond the eyes alone, is required to see them for what they are.

— Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought

…we human beings, more like rainbows and mirages than like raindrops or boulders, are unpredictable self-writing poems — vague, metaphorical, ambiguous, and sometimes exceedingly beautiful.

— Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop

The correspondence between reality and my beliefs comes from reality controlling my beliefs, not the other way around.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Map and Territory

Your priorities are the things you are already doing and don’t need to be reminded to do.

— Brennen Reece, Productivity for the Depressive Polymath

…there was a small but growing body of scientific evidence that happiness wasn’t just the consequence of performing well at work, it might also be an important cause.

— Angela Duckworth, Grit