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A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man…
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Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.
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Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.
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Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant…
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And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.
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If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband…
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We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on…
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We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on…
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Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man…
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On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim…
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Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
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We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their…
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How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young,…
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It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the…
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Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder…
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The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to…
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Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs…
— Ueda Akinari
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Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots;…
— Steven Pinker
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...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail,…
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Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate,…
— Stephen Fry
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a…
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