"Exclusive homosexuality is not very common in nature." — Frans de Waal
"Exclusive homosexuality is not very common in nature."
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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 have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
— Aristotle
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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and…
— Karen Armstrong
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
— Matthew Arnold
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These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other…
— William Henry Ashley
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
— Marcus Aurelius
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a…
— Dan Aykroyd
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
— Walter Bagehot
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I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire…
— Stephen Baldwin
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