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The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically?
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
We deeply want to be led by people who know what they're doing and who don't have to think about it too much.
There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.
As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist.
Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.
One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects.
If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.
Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.
Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.
Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.
When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.
Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.
Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence.
Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.
Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.
Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.
The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.
Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.
The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country.
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.
If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.
Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.
Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like
We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.
The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature
Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place.
Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.
The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech
The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.
Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!
The source of our love comes from within. No one out there is that source. It makes sense to go to the source.
If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.
[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.
If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.
Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.
It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.
Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.