“So if the conscious mind isn’t in control, what is in control?” — Robert Wright Conscious Copy Share Image
Jesus is not from Georgia. Jesus does not speak English. And Jesus is not a member of the NRA. — Robert Wright Church Copy Share Image
“Certainly the prefrontal cortex is an important thing; I’m as proud of mine as the next guy.” — Robert Wright Prefrontal Cortex Copy Share Image
“understanding the ultimate source of your suffering doesn’t, by itself, help very much.” — Robert Wright Suffering Copy Share Image
Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver — Robert Wright Behavior Copy Share Image
Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest. — Robert Wright Endorsing Copy Share Image
“realizing you’re not king can be the first step toward getting some real power.” — Robert Wright First step Copy Share Image
Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change… — Robert Wright Addresses Copy Share Image
“The thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi is said to have written, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek… — Robert Wright Love Copy Share Image
“There is in the world today a great and mysterious force that shapes the fortunes of millions of people. It is called… — Robert Wright Customer Copy Share Image
“natural selection didn’t design your mind to see the world clearly; it designed your mind to have perceptions and beliefs that would… — Robert Wright Evolution Copy Share Image
“Fuel efficiency is reducing the fund’s income per mile driven and the average number of miles driven per person has declined.” — Robert Wright Driving Copy Share Image
“The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.” — Robert Wright Curiosity Copy Share Image
“Maybe it shouldn’t surprise us that Buddhism, with all its early austerity, was founded by a man who, as a member of… — Robert Wright Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Imagine if our negative feelings, or at least lots of them, turned out to be illusions, and we could dispel them by… — Robert Wright Illusions Copy Share Image
“Our entire notion of good and bad, our whole landscape of feelings—fear, lust, love, and the many other feelings, salient and subtle,… — Robert Wright Feelings Copy Share Image
Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies… — Robert Wright Affinity Copy Share Image
“It may seem seem cynical to see all religion as basically self-serving, and indeed the idea has been put pithily by a… — Robert Wright Cynical Copy Share Image
Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution,… — Robert Wright Anticipation Copy Share Image
Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re all puppets,… — Robert Wright Evolution Copy Share Image
“The keen sensitivity with which people detect the flaws of their rivals is one of nature's wonders. It takes a Herculean effort… — Robert Wright Empathy Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas with kin selection the "goal" of… — Robert Wright Altruism Copy Share Image
“They will, on the one hand, have sex with just about anything that moves, given an easy chance, like males in a… — Robert Wright Like Males Copy Share Image
“If you want the shortest version of my answer to the question of why Buddhism is true, it's this: Because we are… — Robert Wright Amazing job Copy Share Image
“Edward Tylor noted in 1874 that the religions of “savage” societies were “almost devoid of that ethical element which to the educated… — Robert Wright Character Copy Share Image
“The short answer is no. But it’s a “no” with an asterisk, a “no” in need of elaboration—and, since the elaboration is… — Robert Wright Argument Copy Share Image
“[I]f it be any part of religion to believe that man was made by a good Being, it is more consistent with… — Robert Wright Faith Copy Share Image
“This has been the point of much of this book. The human brain is a machine designed by natural selection to respond… — Robert Wright Books Copy Share Image
“Buddhist thought and modern psychology converge on this point: in human life as it’s ordinarily lived, there is no one self, no… — Robert Wright Better way Copy Share Image
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal… — Robert Wright Abbey Copy Share Image
Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because… — Robert Wright Ability Copy Share Image
“Brewer said the basic idea is to not fight the urge to, say, smoke a cigarette. That doesn’t mean you succumb to… — Robert Wright Body Urge Copy Share Image
“Altruism, compassion, empathy, love, conscience, the sense of justice—all of these things, the things that hold society together, the things that allow… — Robert Wright Altruism Copy Share Image
“Here the contention is not just that the new Darwinian paradigm can help us realize whichever moral values we happen to choose.… — Robert Wright Darwinism Copy Share Image
“[L]asting love is something a person has to decide to experience. Lifelong monogamous devotion is just not natural—not for women even, and… — Robert Wright Affection Copy Share Image
“feelings are “false” or perhaps “illusory” if they lead the organism astray—” — Robert Wright Feelings Copy Share Image
..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way — Robert Wright Feeling Copy Share Image
“The sages may have been self-serving, like the rest of us, but that doesn't mean they weren't sages.” — Robert Wright Evolutionary psychology Copy Share Image
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