Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
Do not let habit, born from experience, force you along this road, directing aimless eye and echoing ear and tongue; but judge by reason …
I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.
Human capacity for not thinking about what we're doing is infinite.
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
Habit is the nursery of errors.
Things that people are doing constantly but aren't thinking about. That's the ultimate 'Portlandia' concept.
Sometimes, people aren't as consciously aware of their decisions as they should be.
