Daniel Kahneman
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Podcast Appearances
That was very clear.
I wrote an essay before I was 11.
I remember where because it was a German counterattack.
It was during that period.
We were in Paris.
And I wrote an essay about faith and religion.
And it was a very pompous essay.
I had a little book that was titled What I Write About What I Think, something pompous like that.
But the essay started with another pompous thing that I quoted Pascal.
My sister had passed her exams and I had read, you know, she studied some Pascal and I had read it.
And Pascal had said that faith is God made sensible to the heart.
And, you know, little me, I said, how true.
That's what my essay said.
But then I said, but faith is really hard to get.
You don't say it's God all the time.
So that's what...
religious pomp is for, cathedrals, organ music.
They give you, and I call that Uzat's face, sort of a substitute faith, because it's a similar feeling.
It's got to do with God, and that's what you must do with.
That's a psychologist.