Love Quotes by Jonathan Haidt

9 Love quotes by Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt’s take on love appears in nine short statements, each reflecting his moral‑psychology lens. This compact collection provides a quick glimpse into his nuanced view of the emotion.

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Morality binds and blinds.

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

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

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The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not…

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“That was a tear of celebration, a tear of receptiveness to what is good in the world, a tear that says it’s…

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Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with…

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“And as reasoning is not the source, whence either disputant derives his tenets; it is in vain to expect, that any logic,…

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If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want…

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“The troubadours did give us a particular myth of “true” love--the idea that real love burns brightly and passionately, and then it…

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The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

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It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

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“Our minds have the potential to become righteous about many different concerns, and only a few of these concerns are activated during childhood. Other”

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People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

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