"Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate……" — Paul Bloom
"Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling creature."
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39 Quotes by Paul Bloom
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A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God…
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Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.
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Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using…
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Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize…
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And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and…
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If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that…
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We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is…
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We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive…
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Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with…
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On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of…
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Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
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We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance,…
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America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost…
— Hugo Chavez
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I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether…
— Jan Morris
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Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd…
— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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... what I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical,…
— John Stott
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The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two…
— Michael Crichton
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Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.
— Jane Jacobs
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When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that…
— Paul Davies
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Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
— H P Lovecraft
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Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost…
— Kiran Desai
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The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people…
— Kevin Brownlow
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I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody…
— Dileep Rao
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