Sublime

the quality of our lives and the health of our society depends, to a large degree, on how well we treat each other in the minute interactions of daily life.

personal moral dilemma,

A free society cannot be maintained without an ethics of rational self-interest. Neither can it be maintained except by men and women who have achieved a healthy level of self-esteem. And a healthy level of self-esteem cannot be maintained without a willingness to assert—and, if necessary, fight for—our right to exist. It is on this point that issu

One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way—said to be kind, wicked, stupid, energetic, apathetic and so on. People are not like that. We may say of a man that he is more often kind than cruel, more often wise than stupid, more often energetic than apathetic or vice versa; but

The Dark Tetrad

Les psychologues étudient souvent la personnalité en en mesurant les dimensions de base telles que les «cinq grands traits» suivants: névrosisme, extraversion, ouverture à l’expérience, caractère agréable (être gentil et chaleureux) et caractère consciencieux292

Narcissism is essentially human, we all have it, but that doesn’t mean we need to let it convince us that everybody at the restaurant is staring at our table-for-one. Because they’re likely not.

THE LESSER-MINDS PROBLEM. University of Chicago psychologist Nicholas Epley points out that in day-to-day life we have access to the many thoughts that run through our own minds. But we don’t have access to all the thoughts that are running through other people’s minds. We just have access to the tiny portion they speak out loud. This leads to the

Repeated surveys have found that married couples are more satisfied with their lives than individuals who are single, divorced, separated, or cohabiting but unwed.29