Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce cheating and oath breaking.

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

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

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.

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

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

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

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.

Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

The strangest of our powersIs the courage to liveKnowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

I used to be a person that wasn't able to laugh at myself easily.

He didn't know what else to do, how to comfort her, so he simply held her, held the only person in the world who had ever cried for him

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself

Of two evils, choose the more interesting.