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Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

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Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

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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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Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

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

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Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

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If you get something for nothing, part of you may be pleased, but part of you moves your hand to give something back.

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Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

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The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

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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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Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

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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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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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Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

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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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Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

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The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves.

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If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.

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The lesson Buddha and Aurelius had taught centuries earlier: "Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it".

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If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you'll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.

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The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship

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