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Frans de Waal has 86 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.
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Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate…
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As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of…
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The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to…
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You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.
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The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
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If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals,…
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Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and…
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I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at…
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Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.
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We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing…
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If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, ……
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
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I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
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The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a…
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
— Winston Churchill
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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
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I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed…
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There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the…
— Theodor Adorno
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Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose…
— William O. Douglas
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