Jonathan Haidt Quotes
Jonathan Haidt Quotes
Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.
3188 The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.
2411 The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history,quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum.
3179 Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?)
4254 The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.
1967 Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.
2810 Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.
1900 Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.
4649 Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.
1941 Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
2725 Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.
2378 You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications for those feelings. Even when the servant (reasoning) comes back empty-handed, the master (intuition) doesn't change his judgment.
1798 The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.
1231 Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices. This makes it very difficult for people to consider the possibility that there might really be more than one form of moral truth, or more than one valid framework for judging people or running a society.
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