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• If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.
• Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate…
• As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of…
• The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to…
• You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.
• The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
• If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals,…
• Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and…
• I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at…
• Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.
• We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing…
• 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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