12 quotes found
“We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.”
“Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver”
“Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.”
“Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?”
“..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way”
“Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't not because it's optimistic, but because it can't take ideals...”
“Here the contention is not just that the new Darwinian paradigm can help us realize whichever moral values we happen to choose. The claim is that the new paradigm can actually influence legitimate...”
“In all these assaults on the senses there is a great wisdom not only about the addictiveness of pleasures but about their ephemerality. The essence of addiction, after all, is that pleasure tends ...”
“Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity ...”
“Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas with kin selection the "goal" of our genes is to actually help another organism, with rec...”
“If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something similar might be said about human societies. If two nearby societies a...”
“In all these assaults on the senses there is a great wisdom — not only about the addictiveness of pleasures but about their ephemerality. The essence of addiction, after all, is that pleasure tends...”
