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World Quotes by Steven Pinker
- Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you…
- In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology,…
- We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.
- In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and…
- The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying…
- Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.
- For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we…
- As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.
- Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
- Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
- Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.
- We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.
- People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but…
- A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a…
- Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the…
- Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare…
- Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the…
- The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in…
- There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual…
- Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani