quotes by Daniel Gilbert

"My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it."
— Daniel Gilbert (Stumbling on Happiness)

"We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their lips, and vibrated some air. Yes, those vibrations can make us feel sad or stupid or alienated. Tough shit. That's the price of admission to the marketplace of ideas. Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is how we know we're in one. When all the words in our public conversation are fair, good, and true, it's time to make a run for the fence."
— Daniel Gilbert

"The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices."
— Daniel Gilbert (Stumbling on Happiness)

"Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage."
— Daniel Gilbert (Stumbling on Happiness)