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Egalitarianism seems to be rooted more in the hatred of domination than in the love of equality per se.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)
Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)
Republicans understand moral psychology. Democrats don't.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)
Science is a smorgasbord, and Google will guide you to the study that's right for you.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)
Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.
The lesson Buddha and Marcus 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".
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2005)
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.
First, kill all the math classes beyond algebra. Stop wasting so much of our students’ time learning math. It’s not useful, it’s not helpful.
Knowledge@Wharton (2013)
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.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)
Nowadays, secular people often see the Enlightenment as a battle between two mortal enemies; on one side was science, with its principal weapon, reason, and on the other side was religion, with its ancient shield of superstition. Reason defeated superstition, light replaced darkness.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)
"The reason why we all feel we have to give our kid a smartphone by the time they're ten is because everyone else did. And your kid says, you know, dad, I'm the only one. I'm being left out. So we're all, you know, we're all doing that."
"Conversation with Jonathan Haidt - The Kids Are Not Alright", on The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway, found on DeepCast (28 March 2024)