"Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies." — Frans de Waal
"Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies."
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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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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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