"Modern science tells us that the conscious self……" — Paul Bloom
"Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls."
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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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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because…
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
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In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
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Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind…
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I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe…
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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his…
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from…
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