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““Practical wisdom," Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill.””

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When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing,…

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“Emotions properly trained and modulated, Aristotle told his readers, are essential to being practically wise: We can experience fear, confidence, desire, anger, pity, and…

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“When asked about what they regret most in the last six months, people tend to identify actions that didn’t meet expectations. But when asked…

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“If society asks more of us, and arranges its social institutions appropriately, it will get more.”

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Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they…

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“Being able to criticize our own certainties is often a painful struggle, demanding some courage as we try to stand back and impartially judge…

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“According to standard economic assumptions, the only opportunity costs that should figure into a decision are the ones associated with the next-best alternative.”

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“We give disproportionate weight to whether yogurt is said to be five percent fat or 95 percent fat free. People seem to think that…

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Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years,…

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“Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life”

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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end…

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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.

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If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am…

Henry David Thoreau

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In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

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Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's…

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Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or…

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Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a…

Martin Luther King, Jr

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What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

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“Ethics is a dream.”

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We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we…

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“You do not need commandments to tell you what is right and wrong, you need reason. YOU NEED TO THINK. What are the consequences…

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Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our…

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“In a fallen world, it was hard to do unambiguous good.”

Thomas Keneally

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