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We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.

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Jonathan Haidt
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 19
Psychologist
University Teacher
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan David Haidt
Aesthetic
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The world doesn't usually affect us directly. It's what we do with it. It's the filters that we put on it. That's the foundation of certainly most pop-psychology, and of a lot of psychotherapy, cognitive therapy. So that, I think, is the greatest truth.
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Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.
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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.
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Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.
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Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.
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I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than the sum of the individuals. And I've found that much of the wisest writing on human social nature comes from sociology and anthropology, not from my own field of social psychology.
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Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.
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The consistent finding of psychological research is that we are fairly accurate in our perceptions of others. It's our self-perceptions that are distorted because we look at ourselves in a rose-colored mirror.
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science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you.
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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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Morality binds and blinds.
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If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy.
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To understand most important ideas in psychology, you need to understand how the mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. We assume that there is one person in each body, but in some ways we are each more like a committee whose members have been thrown together to do a job, but who often find themselves working at cross purposes.
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Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.
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Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
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The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.
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Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.
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I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.
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