Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

Jonathan Haidt

Tags: war sex sports analogy pornography



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The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

Jonathan Haidt

Tags: life happiness philosophy jon jonathan elephant haidt mindfuckery



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Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

Jonathan Haidt

Tags: science political



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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.

Jonathan Haidt

Tags: politics religion psychology presidents civil



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The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction and destruction.

Jonathan Haidt

Tags: religion evolution culture



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Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?)

Jonathan Haidt

Tags: religion atheism



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[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.

Jonathan Haidt

Tags: moral-psychology



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

Jonathan Haidt

Tags: science-the-new-religion



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If you want to change people's minds, you've got to talk to their elephants.

Jonathan Haidt


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...human beings are 90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee.

Jonathan Haidt


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