Quotes from Kevin Dutton

Aristotle observed more than 2,400 years ago, "There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

In 1651, in Leviathan, it was Thomas Hobbes who first advanced the contention that without top-down state controls we'd turn, rather effortlessly, into a bunch of brutish savages. And there's more than a grain of truth in such a notion. But Pinker argues from a more bottom-up perspective, and while certainly not denying the importance of legal restraints, also insinuates a gradual process of cultural and psychological maturation.

Kuidas saab veel paremini kinnitada oma autoriteeti, kui veendes eeldatavaid vastaseid, et nad on lüüa saanud juba enne võitluse alustamist?

Kes hoiab jala gaasipedaalil - säilitab külma närvi -, see võidab alati, kui eeldada, et vastane on terve mõistusega.

College kids today are about 40 per cent lower in empathy14 than their counterparts of twenty or thirty years ago,' Konrath reports. More worrying still, according to Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University,15 is that, during this same period, students' self-reported narcissism levels have, in contrast, gone in the other direction. They've shot through the roof.

Mõnikord võib mõistusevastane käitumine osutuda hoopiski ratsionaalseks.

See, mis tuleb asjatundjatel kogemuse kaudu omandada, on psühhopaatidel algusest peale käes.

Many people see the current group of college students, sometimes called "Generation Me",'16 Konrath continues, 'as one of the most self-centred, narcissistic, competitive, confident and individualistic in recent history.

Precisely why this downturn in social values should have come about is not entirely clear.

Good men sleep peacefully in their beds at night,' George Orwell once articulated, 'because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

The psychopath emerges as anything up to five times more likely to beat, rape, kill, or mutilate his way back behind bars.

If the psychopath can "make" out of a situation, if there's any kind of reward on offer, they go for it, irrespective of risk or possible negative consequences.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n. – John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667), Book 1, lines 254–5

Apple isn't the world's greatest techno-innovator. Nowhere near it, in fact. Rather, it excels, in contrast, at rehashing other people's ideas.

My conscience certainly feels like it's been spiked with moral Rohypnol.

Oosthuizen's red spot is a classic example of what's known in sports psychology as a process goal--a technique by which the athlete is required to focus on something, however minor, to prevent them from thinking about other things: in Oosthuizen's case, all the ways he could possibly screw up the shot.

A truck probably constitutes the most important piece of equipment in the serial killer's toolkit here in the U.S. It's a modus operandi and getaway vehicle rolled into one.