These Atlantikoinonia. They’re human? (Acheron) What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory)
When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.
Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.
Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.
Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.
Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.
Donald Trump is Donald Trump! He doesn't apologize for who he is. We know he's tacky. We know he's orange. We know he's got a bad haircut.
There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.