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Science is a smorgasbord, and Google will guide you to the study that's right for you.

— Jonathan Haidt The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)

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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)

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)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

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