253 quotes found
“Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't changed for thousands of years because as far as we can tell the human template hasn't changed either...”
“Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self.”
“Despite the fact that we cannot be absolutely altruistic in our behavior, we can still build our character to be loving and compassionate to empathize with others.”
“It is infinitely better to rely on the pursuit of economic interest by landowners or street companies than to depend on the dubious altruism of bureaucrats and government officials.”
“The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad peoples problem.”
“Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.”
“No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.”
“To label someone as selfless is symptomatic of having bought the preposterous claim that a human being can have great concern for other human beings and little concern for themselves, or that, when...”
“It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.”
“Compassion dervies from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning "to suffer, undergo or experience." So "compassion" means "to endure [something] with another person," to put ourselves in so...”
“The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life.”
“I could doubt the value of my books as much as many do, except that, as a researcher and very curious person, I do read a lot too, and can clearly see the difference in value between what I do and ...”
“If 10 percent of the population were to take a consciously ethical outlook on life and act accordingly, the resulting change would be more significant than any change of government,”
“He was always in a sort of fever because he was dropping behind schedule with his daily acts of kindness. However hard he tried, he'd fall behind; and then you would find him prowling about the hou...”
“In the end, the only thing that really matters is how we treated all living things.”
“The real warriors in this world are the ones that see the details of another's soul. They see the transparency behind walls people put up. They stand on the battlefield of life and expose their hea...”
“The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.”
“When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your prog...”
“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.”
“Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.”
