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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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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
— Josh Billings
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's…
— John Green
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One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that…
— Eula Biss
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Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what…
— Paulo Coelho
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The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own…
— Erica Jong
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It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about…
— Edmund Gibson
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Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
— Erica Jong
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying…
— Lucretius
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