“If morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.”Tagged: Economics, Morality
“Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of 'identity.' It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision.”Tagged: How To Think, Identity, Social Identity, identity is motive
“As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”Tagged: How To Think, Worthy, Meaning, Ambiguity