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People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.
Jonathan Haidt
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Jonathan Haidt
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 19
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New York City
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Jonathan David Haidt
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It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.
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Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
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Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.
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Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives.
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People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.
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Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
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Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.
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It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.
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Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace.
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Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.
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