Not giving a fuck does not mean being indifferent; it means being comfortable with being different.

— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

…we seem unaware of this backward fitting, much like tailors who take great pride in delivering the perfectly fitting suit—but do so by surgically altering the limbs of their customers. For instance, few realize that we are changing the brains of schoolchildren through medication in order to make them adjust to the curriculum, rather than the reverse.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes

…progress in science is not a simple line leading to the truth. It is more progress away from less adequate conceptions of, and interactions with, the world…

— Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The goal of science is to make the wonderful and complex understandable and simple—but not less wonderful.

— Herb Simon, Sciences of the Artificial

If life and existence were an enjoyable state, then everyone would reluctantly approach the unconscious state of sleep and would gladly rise from it again. But the very opposite is the case, for everyone very willingly goes to sleep and unwillingly gets up again.

— Alain De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy