Quotes by Jonathan Haidt

“Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.”

“Those who think money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop People would be happier and healthier if they took more time off and spent it with their family and friends, yet America has...”

“I quickly realized that there are two main kinds of diversitydemographic and moral. ... Once you make this distinction, you see that nobody can coherently even want moral diversity. If you are pro-...”

“Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.”

“Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce cheating and oath breaking.”

“Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.”

“If you want your children to grow up to be healthy and independent, you should hold them, hug them, cuddle them, and love them. Give them a secure base and they will explore and then conquer the wo...”

“We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.”

“The philosopher Edmund Pincoffs has argued that consequentialists and deontologists worked together to convince Westerners in the twentieth century that morality is the study of moral quandaries an...”

“The author found participants in a study able to come up with more reasons to support their position but not anymore likely to change their minds based on contradictory evidence. In effect, they en...”

“Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We dont really know, because the first atheistic societies have onl...”

“Baumeister's point is that we have a deep need to understand violence and cruelty through what he calls "the myth of pure evil." Of this myth's many parts, the most important are that evildoers are...”

“When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee.”

“The emotion of disgust evolved initially to optimize responses to the omnivore's dilemma. Individuals who had a properly calibrated sense of disgust were able to consume more calories than their ov...”

“With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.”

“Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.”

“The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over undisciplined hordes follows cheaply from the confidence which each man feels in his comrades. Charles Darwin”

“Everyone cares about fairness, but there are two major kinds. On the left, fairness often implies equality, but on the right it means proportionality people should be rewarded in proportion to what...”

“Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould”

“Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.”