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Other Quotes by Frans de Waal
- Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not…
- If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of…
- There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.
- I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples of…
- There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.
- It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously…
- After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better…
- It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender…
- Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse…
- Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — 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
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour