"If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God,……" — Paul Bloom

"If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?"

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39 Quotes by Paul Bloom

Paul Bloom has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God…
Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.
Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using…
Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize…
And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and…
If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that…
We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is…
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive…
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with…
On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of…
Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance,…

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More Capacity Quotes

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I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had… — Tyra Banks
Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives. — Gerry Adams
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. Bennis
We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are… — Andrew Bernstein
As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely… — Annie Besant
Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological. — Kathryn Bigelow
I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of… — Theodore Bikel
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. — David Blaine
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. — Omar N. Bradley
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to… — Berkeley Breathed
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of -… — Warren Buffett
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is… — Frederick Buechner

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