God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
Scott Adams
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.”
“You can change only what people know, not what they do.”
“The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh.”
“Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.”
“The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day”
“What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.”
“it is not belief to say God exists and then continue sinning and hoarding your wealth while innocent people die of starvation. When belief does not control your most important decisions, it is not belief in the underlying reality, it is belief in the usefulness of believing.”
“Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain’s limits, not the universe’s.”
“The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.”
“Awareness is about unlearning. It is the recognition that you don’t know as much as you thought you knew.”
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Book Keywords:
relationships, management, control
