The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

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

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

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

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

Every successful start-up is built on four pillars. Team, Idea, Passion & Presentations

When I look at you as if you're crazy it's not that I judge you for your insanity.

We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

In terms of security for wildlife and our society, it's an incredibly alarming situation, and we need to address that.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.