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- In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology,…
- Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory has been endorsed…
- Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.
- But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.
- Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
- Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
- If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it…
- If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both.…
- Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control,…
- One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most…
- There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used…
- Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a…
- The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not…
- You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools for our convenience tens of thousands of…
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster