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.

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

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

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.

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.

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.

Hope dreams into being what is possible but not yet formed.

William James described success as a combination of two things. An inner ideal which is followed persistently with courage and Outer achievement related to that ideal.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.

I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.

My beloved child, break your heart no longer. Each time you judge yourself, you break your own heart.

The metaphors exist for the stories.

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.

When the heart speaks, love listens.