Fall 2008 Courses Psy 233 Psychology of Personality Psy 468 Advanced Psychopathology

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“The motive of the drama of human life is the necessity, laid upon every man who comes into the world, of discovering the mean between self-assertion and self-restraint suited to his character and his circumstances. And the eternally tragic aspect of the drama lies in this: that the problem set before us is one the elements of which can be but imperfectly known, and of which even an approximately right solution rarely presents itself, until that stern critic, aged experience, has been furnished with ample justification for venting his sarcastic humour upon the irreparable blunders we have already made.”
-Thomas H. Huxley, 1896/2004, p. ix

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me?
If I am only for myself, then what am I?
If not now, then when?
........................................ Hillel the Elder

"You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot,
For the places and people you're lucky you're not."
....................................... Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)

"I believe humans got a lot done, not because we are smart, but because we have two thumbs so we can make coffee." Flash Rosenberg

"Be not arrogant because of your knowledge, and have no confidence because you are learned. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as the wise, for the limits of knowledge cannot be reached, and no one really knows the end. Good words are more precious than malachite, and yet they can be found with slave-girls at the millstones." ('The Instructions of Ptah-hotep', Old Kingdom, cited by M.V. Seton-Williams, 1988, p. 1)

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