#pleasantness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pleasantness, aggregated by home.social.
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Hope, deceitful as she is, serves at least to conduct us through life by an agreeable path.
[L’espérance, toute trompeuse qu’elle est, sert au moins à nous mener à la fin de la vie par un chemin agréable.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶168 (1665–1678) [ed. Gowens (1851), ¶171]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #agreeability #deception #hope #life #living #pleasantness #selfdeceit #selfdeception
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New paper out in #ScientificReports on how humans perceive sex-specific #BodyOdours [i.e., #MSH and #HMHA]. It confirms the existence of #gender and #age differences in odour #perception, as well as a pre-existing bias associating #pleasantness with #femininity. However, the effects of the compounds themselves are very small, indicating a minimal role of MSH and/or HMHA in mate preferences.
A combined work with #CamilleFerdenziLemaitre, #GéraldineCoppin and #SylvainDelplanque :-)
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A quotation from Naomi Shulman
Nice people made the best Nazis.
Or so I have been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on “politics,” instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away.Naomi Shulman (contemp.), American writer, essayist, editor
Essay (2016-11-17), “No Time To Be Nice: Now Is Not the Moment to Remain Silent,” WBUR, National Public RadioMore info about this quote: wist.info/shulman-naomi/80028/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #naomishulman #compliance #complicity #gettingalong #looktheotherway #makingwaves #Nazis #niceness #pleasantness #politeness #politics #self-distraction #tyranny #willfulignorance