Dual nature Quote by Jonathan Haidt

“Human beings appear to be sufficiently selfish and calculating to be capable of indefinitely greater harmony and social homeostasis. This statement is not self-contradictory.…

— Edward O. Wilson

“Consider: There is no division of humanity into strong and weak halves, protective/protected, dominant/submissive, owner/chattel, active/passive. In fact the whole tendency to dualism that…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Humans are selfish creatures who can always be counted on to do the wrong thing.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“lives when we may begin to see even the commonest animals on their own terms, fellow creatures with their own needs to meet and…

— Matthew Scully

“On the one hand, our entire species survived because we stuck together and cooperated, but on the other hand we developed because the strongest…

— Fredrik Backman

“In demonstrating that humans behave with justice, tolerance, reason, love toward other forms of life, we are doing no more than demanding that humans…

— Edward Abbey

“...We are truly human when we live for a purpose far above ourselves; but most people prefer to identify with an entity for the…

— Janvier Chando

“Nature teaches us lessons that no book can teach. It teaches us that there is always inequality in life. Just look at the animals…

— Mouloud Benzadi

“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of…

— Alexander von Humboldt

“Selfishness may result in one's sense of superiority, but life as such will surely deny them.”

— Eraldo Banovac

“As far back as I can remember, I’ve utterly destroyed within myself the pride of being human. And I saunter to the periphery of…

— Emil M. Cioran

“Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do confers no survival benefit…

— Marilynne Robinson