Jonathan Haidt

“Our life is the creation of our mind,”

— Jonathan Haidt

Morality binds and blinds.

— Jonathan Haidt

Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence.

— Jonathan Haidt

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

— Jonathan Haidt

“Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.”

— Jonathan Haidt

“Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.”

— Jonathan Haidt

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

— Jonathan Haidt

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

— Jonathan Haidt

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

— Jonathan Haidt

“Religions exist primarily for people to achieve together what they cannot achieve on their own.”43”

— Jonathan Haidt

Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.

— Jonathan Haidt

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

— Jonathan Haidt

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

— Jonathan Haidt

“Anything that binds people together into dense networks of trust makes people less selfish. In”

— Jonathan Haidt

“If you want to change people's minds, you've got to talk to their elephants.”

— jonathan haidt

“People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral…

— Jonathan Haidt

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.

— Jonathan Haidt

The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one…

— Jonathan Haidt

I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I…

— Jonathan Haidt

“Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce…

— Jonathan Haidt

Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than…

— Jonathan Haidt

Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.

— Jonathan Haidt

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect…

— Jonathan Haidt

I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think…

— Jonathan Haidt

To understand most important ideas in psychology, you need to understand how the mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. We…

— Jonathan Haidt

If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then…

— Jonathan Haidt

The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson…

— Jonathan Haidt

“If you want your kids to learn about the physical world, let them play with cups and water; don’t lecture them about…

— Jonathan Haidt

It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People…

— Jonathan Haidt

Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst…

— Jonathan Haidt

Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry…

— Jonathan Haidt

“[A corporation is] a collection of many individuals united into one body, under a special denomination, having perpetual succession under an artificial…

— Jonathan Haidt

We are like a rider on top of a gigantic elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll…

— Jonathan Haidt

“Those who think money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop … People would be happier and healthier if they…

— Jonathan Haidt

“The "omnivore's dilemma" (a term coined by Paul Rozin) is that omnivores must seek out and explore new potential foods while remaining…

— Jonathan Haidt

“This is the essence of psychological rationalism: We grow into our rationality as caterpillars grow into butterflies. If the caterpillar eats enough…

— Jonathan Haidt

“We should not expect individuals to produce good, open-minded, truth-seeking reasoning, particularly when self-interest or reputational concerns are in play. But if…

— Jonathan Haidt

“But as soon as you step outside of Western secular society, you hear people talking in two additional moral languages. The ethic…

— Jonathan Haidt

“In such prototribal societies, individuals who found it harder to play along, to restrain their antisocial impulses, and to conform to the…

— Jonathan Haidt

“first principle of moral psychology: Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.”

— Jonathan Haidt