Happiness Refers To Feelings, Virtue Refers To

People Want To Be Happy, And All The Other Things They Want Are Typically Meant To Be A Means To That End.

If I Wanted To Know What A Certain Future Would Feel Like To Me, I Would Find Someone Who Is Already Living That Future. If I Wonder What It's Like To Become A Lawyer Or Marry A Busy Executive Or Eat At A Particular Restaurant, My Best Bet Is To Find People Who Have Actually Done These Things And See How Happy They Are.

The Human Brain Is The Only Object In The Known Universe That Can Predict Its Own Future And Tell Its On Fortune. The Fact That We Can Make Disastrous Decisions Even As We Foresee Their Consequences Is The Great, Unsolved Mystery Of Human Behavior. When You Hold Your Fate In Your Hands, Why Would You Ever Make A Fist?

The Eye And Brain Are Conspirators, And, Like Most Conspiracies, Theirs Is Negotiated Behind Closed Doors, In The Back Room, Outside Of Our Awareness.

What’s So Curious About Human Beings Is That We Can Look Deeply Into The Future, Foresee Disaster, And Still Do Nothing In The Present To Stop It. The Majority Of People On This Planet, They’re Overwhelmed With Concerns About Their Immediate Well Being.