Daniel Kahneman

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised. ”

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish. ”

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings. ”

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes. ”

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child. ”

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time. ”

It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe. ”

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering. ”

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact. ”

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news. ”