"Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to……" — Frans de Waal
"Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring."
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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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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth…
— Mary Antin
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Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail…
— Charles Brent
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...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers.…
— John of Kronstadt
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As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me,…
— David Brainerd
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While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without…
— Nachman of Breslov
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not,…
— George Washington
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Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities…
— Pope John Paul II
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Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for…
— Samuel Johnson
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Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my…
— Francois Rabelais
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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
— Groucho Marx
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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.
— John Szarkowski
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