Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods such as moments, days, or years? And to what extent are virtue and happiness linked?
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. - Sissela Bok
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
- Sissela Bok
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the bur… - Sissela Bok
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the bur…
The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life be… - Sissela Bok
The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life be…
Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity. - Sissela Bok
Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.
Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives. - Sissela Bok
Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.
Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared. - Sissela Bok
Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.
Much as being active in the antislavery movement of the last century involved more than not engaging in slavery oneself, so joining in an antiviolenc… - Sissela Bok
Much as being active in the antislavery movement of the last century involved more than not engaging in slavery oneself, so joining in an antiviolenc…
Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings. - Sissela Bok
Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.
Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When it is damaged, the community as a whole suffers… - Sissela Bok
Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When it is damaged, the community as a whole suffers…
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