Cebes Tabula Quotes & Sayings

I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people. — Robert Rauschenberg

Who can wish for happiness that is bought at the price of reason, whose fleeting pleasures are at least followed by regret, if not remorse? — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

She preferred fear to misplaced confidence. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

If we try to complicate our lives, developing clever plans and ambitions, we lose sight of the way in which small, insignificant things actually hold the key to what we seek. — Yi-Ping Ong

The authors pointed out that nearly all research in psychology is conducted on a very small subset of the human population: people from cultures that are Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (forming the acronym WEIRD). They then reviewed dozens of studies showing that WEIRD people are statistical outliers; they are the least typical, least representative people you could study if you want to make generalizations about human nature. Even within the West, Americans are more extreme outliers than Europeans, and within the United States, the educated upper middle class (like my Penn sample) is the most unusual of all. — Jonathan Haidt