“Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.” WellsEndsHandsImaginationExistenceMoralMankindPositionBehaviorMajorsFoundationComplexesAtheistPermanentHuntsDeitiesTheismTheistPretenderMoral BehaviorNapoleon Complex Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down.” HandsEmotionBehaviorMy FavoriteScaryMaskPlusHalloweenPsychoticMichael Myers Author:Chris Zylka
“The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune. The fact that we can make disastrous decisions even as we foresee their consequences is the great, unsolved mystery of human behavior. When you hold your fate in your hands, why would you ever make a fist?” HumansFactsHandsUniverseDecisionBrainKnownFateMysteryObjectsBehaviorConsequenceFortuneHuman BehaviorFistsHuman BrainUnsolved Mysteries Author:Daniel Gilbert
“A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking somebody in the eye, shaking hands and being friendly under duress.” HumansHandsEyePartyEventsBehaviorMannersFriendlyArtificialHuman BehaviorShakingAdmirableSociabilityDuressShaking Hands Author:Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
“I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.” PeopleIfsHumansLongI CanHandsFacesWatchesListeningBehaviorPicksHuman BehaviorFascination Author:Scoot McNairy
“It's impossible for minorities, impossible for people of color to be ever guilty of hate crimes. Because their only crimes are justified. Their crimes are justifiable. It’s retribution and payback for years and decades and maybe even centuries of oppressive behavior at the hands of the white majority.” PeopleYearsHandsHateWhiteImpossibleCenturyCrimeColorBehaviorMajorityDecadesGuiltyMinoritiesJustifiedHate CrimeRetributionPayback Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Surrendered people understand that they can’t always change a situation, especially when the door is shut. They don’t try to force it open. Instead, they pay attention to their own behavior, look at the situation at hand, and find a new, different, and creative way to get beyond the obstacles. They are comfortable with uncertainty.” PeopleWayTryingLooksDifferentHandsForcePayAttentionSituationCreativeDoorsBehaviorComfortableObstaclesPay AttentionUncertainty Author:Judith Orloff
“A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands.” SelfHandsSufferingViolenceProduceConflictBehaviorDestructionSeparationEngagedSociologySelf DestructionPathology Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Sexual behavior is not, as is too often assumed, a superimposition of, on the one hand, desires which derive from natural instincts, and, on the other hand, of permissive or restrictive laws which tell us what we should or shouldn't do. Sexual behavior is more than that.” ShouldHandsLawDesireNaturalBehaviorInstinctNatural Instinct Author:Michel Foucault
“Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an utterly different meaning. Placing your hand on someone's arm can be an act of deep compassion or the first step of betrayal. The punch line? It's all about context, and the biology of context is vastly more complicated than the biology of the behavior itself.” IfsFirstsDifferentHandsLinesCompassionStepsFireArmsBehaviorGunComplicatedBetrayalDrawingBiologyFirst StepsPullingSuicidalTriggersOf ContextDifferent Meanings Author:Robert M. Sapolsky
“The distinction between feelings or inclinations on the one hand, and behavior on the other hand, is very clear. It's no sin to have inclinations that if yielded to would produce behavior that would be a transgression. The sin is in yielding to temptation. Temptation is not unique. Even the Savior was tempted.” IfsFeelingsHandsWould BeSinClearProduceBehaviorUniqueTemptationDistinctionSaviorTemptedInclinationTransgression Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.” HandsCoursesOpportunitySocialLevelsBrainPathSecurityComfortTasteBehaviorAmbitionUniqueEmpathyConstitutionCuriosityPatternsAbstractSeatsGenesThirstTemperamentNoveltyClicksAptitudeLeversWiring Author:Steven Pinker
“Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldn’t. People will do what they will do. The trick is admitting your own helplessness about that little fact.” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldHeartLittlesPersonsEnoughFactsHandsFightingBehaviorCapableTricksNurseManipulateHelplessnessAdmitting Author:Deb Caletti