"Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that……" — Frans de Waal
"Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this personally."
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86 Quotes by Frans de Waal
Frans de Waal has 86 quotes on this site.
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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.…
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As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler…
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The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is…
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More Aversions Quotes
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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
— Marcus Aurelius
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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in…
— George Santayana
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Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of…
— Thomas Hobbes
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Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an…
— Alice Munro
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Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up…
— Epictetus
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Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty,…
— Pema Chodron
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The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the…
— S. N. Goenka
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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
— Jonathan Swift
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The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.
— Lester Levenson
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The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and…
— Frederick Lenz
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Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand…
— Francoise Sagan
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