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The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.
Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.
We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we... →
I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.
The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.
If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.
If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.
The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.
As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an... →
Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance... →
First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can... →