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- Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there…
- Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
- The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
- Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even spiritual experience, moderates…
- Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost…
- Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary…
- The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could…
- Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is…
- The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so…
- Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.
- It is time we realize that belief is not a private matter. As a man believes, so he will act. Believe that you are a…
- There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of…
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- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
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- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle