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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.
- On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive an…
- Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so…
- The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it…
- Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to…
- Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a…
- Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
More Us Quotes
- Sometimes I think that life would be how much easier if we don't have heart. Because it is the heart which puts… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar