Verum Insights...

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally

and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.

Society is something in nature that precedes the individual. Anyone who

either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need

to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.

Aristotle

Politics, c. 328 BC”

“Aronson's first law:

People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.”

“The person who is easiest to brainwash is the person whose beliefs are based on slogans that have never been seriously challenged.”

“... the more similar a person seems to you in attitudes, opinions, and interests, the more you like the person. Opposites may attract, but they don't stick.”

“Thus, if passionate love is like cocaine, then companionate is more like a glass of fine wine - something delicious and pleasurable, but with fewer health palpitations and less mania.”

“What do Hitler's inner circle, Nixon's close advisers, and NASA administrators have in common, aside from the fact that they made terrible decisions? Each was a relatively cohesive group isolated from dissenting points of view.”

“News is a form of entertainment.”

“An appreciation of the power of self esteem helps us understand therefore why people who have low self esteem or who simply believe they are incompetent in some domain are not totally overjoyed when