"Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't……" — Paul Bloom
"Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons."
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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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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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I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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