"Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated."

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Source : "Social Psychology". Book by Solomon Asch, p. 61, 1952.

Solomon Asch

#Social Quotes #Understood Quotes #Isolated Quotes

“With my wife Camille's help, I took to social networking. I'm working with the computers.”
“I can't stop bleeding and I can't stop having sex with corpses.”
“I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.”
“Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert”
“Believing there's no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate.”
“I wanted to be rid of him," he says. He raises my chin with his thumb. "But not if it meant being rid of you. I climbed in beside you, and you put your head in my lap. You can't think I would have left you like that." "Look what it got you," I say. "Tea in bed and you here in front of me," he says. "It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.”
“Why does everybody have to be with somebody? Itâ€™s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.”
“In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.”

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