Accepting Quote by Steven Pinker

“The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are...It is only…

— James Rachels

When I try to outline the history of ethical life, it's sometimes possible to find evidence for a hypothesis about how important transitions actually…

— Philip Kitcher

“Anthropology at that time was in transition, moving from the study of men dead and gone to the study of living people, and slowly…

— Lily King

“He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“[They] may have for instance taken the view of Edmund Burke, who in the 18th century made the central conservative insight; that a culture…

— Douglas Murray

“Moribund cultures are fertile fields for fearful, fatalistic worldviews.”

— Vishal Mangalwadi

Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on…

— Stephen Levine

“life as the causal system of physiological and psychological processes, and life as a system of interrelated-will-attitudes,”

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Whereas we, the dead, are the true inheritors of the Modern. The live lot assemble time into lazy decadences--ten-year periods of conspicuous attitudinising, which…

— Will Self

“The truth of living is proved not by the inevitability of death but by the wonder that we lived at all. Remembering lives from…

— Nina Sankovitch

“the ideas and emotions people carry with them through life often determine the quality of their death.”

— Arianna Huffington

“We risk being the first people in history to have been able to make their illusions so vivid, so persuasive, so ‘realistic’ that they…

— Gary Goldhammer