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Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.
— Jonathan Haidt
Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.
— Jonathan Haidt
we see faces in the clouds, but never clouds in faces, because we have special cognitive modules for face detection.
— Jonathan Haidt
The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.
— Jonathan Haidt
People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.
— Jonathan Haidt
Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.
— Jonathan Haidt
Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.
— Jonathan Haidt
Our minds have the potential to become righteous about many different concerns, and only a few of these concerns are activated during childhood. Other
— Jonathan Haidt
acts like a kind of reset button: it makes people forget themselves and their petty concerns.
— Jonathan Haidt
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.
— Jonathan Haidt
That was my first hint that groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.18
— Jonathan Haidt
When corporations are given the ring of Gyges, we can expect catastrophic results (for the ecosystem, the banking system, public health, etc.).
— Jonathan Haidt
After analyzing the DNA of 13,000 Australians, scientists recently found several genes that differed between liberals and conservatives.
— Jonathan Haidt
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.
— Jonathan Haidt
Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace.
— Jonathan Haidt
Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (forming the acronym WEIRD).
— Jonathan Haidt
Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.
— Jonathan Haidt
We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.
— Jonathan Haidt
Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.
— Jonathan Haidt
Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you.
— Jonathan Haidt
If you get something for nothing, part of you may be pleased, but part of you moves your hand to give something back.
— Jonathan Haidt
The author says we enlist reasons to convince others to join the direction of our instincts.
— Jonathan Haidt
With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.
— Jonathan Haidt
Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.
— Jonathan Haidt
Hume believed that reason was (and was only fit to be) the servant of the passions.
— Jonathan Haidt
Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence.
— Jonathan Haidt
Darwin, writing in Victorian England, shared Glaucon's view (from aristocratic Athens) that people are obsessed with their reputations.
— Jonathan Haidt
Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
— Jonathan Haidt
Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.
— Jonathan Haidt
A Liberal authority is someone or something that earns society's respect through making things happen that unify society and suppress its enemy.
— Jonathan Haidt
But the fact is that we care a lot about what others think of us. The only people known to have no sociometer are psychopaths.
— Jonathan Haidt
The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.
— Jonathan Haidt
It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.
— Jonathan Haidt
As the colonial insects did to the other insects, we have pushed all other mammals to the margins, to extinction, or to servitude.
— Jonathan Haidt
But decades of research on public opinion have led to the conclusion that self-interest is a weak predictor of policy preferences.
— Jonathan Haidt
It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.
— Jonathan Haidt
When Freud was asked what a normal person should be able to do well, he is reputed to have said, Love and work.
— Jonathan Haidt
Animals that fly seem to violate the laws of physics, but only until you learn a bit more about physics.
— Jonathan Haidt
[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
Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.
— Jonathan Haidt
Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.
— Jonathan Haidt
Adverse fortune is more beneficial than good fortune; the latter only makes men greedy for more, but adversity makes them strong.
— Jonathan Haidt
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.
— Jonathan Haidt
The moral matrix of liberals, in America and elsewhere, rests more heavily on the Care foundation than do the matrices of conservatives
— Jonathan Haidt
Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.
— Jonathan Haidt
Liberals are so committed to a narrative of oppression and exploitation that they can't take good news, they can't accept good news.
— Jonathan Haidt
As the psychologist Jonathan Haidt put it, there are two ways to get at the truth: the way of the scientist and the way of the lawyer.
— Leonard Mlodinow
This was my first hint that morality often involves tension within the group linked to competition between different groups.
— Jonathan Haidt
Skilled arguers ... are not after the truth but after arguments supporting their views.
— Jonathan Haidt
If you think about religion as a set of beliefs about supernatural agents, you're bound to misunderstand it.
— Jonathan Haidt
Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.
— Jonathan Haidt
Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well. - EPICTETUS
— Jonathan Haidt
If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.
— Jonathan Haidt
We're all stuck here for a while, so let's try to work it out.
— Jonathan Haidt
Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.
— Jonathan Haidt
We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.
— Jonathan Haidt
People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.
— Jonathan Haidt
Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.
— Jonathan Haidt
If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths.
— Jonathan Haidt
You don't need a social scientist to tell you that people behave less ethically when they think nobody can see them.
— Jonathan Haidt
The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.
— Jonathan Haidt
I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.
— Jonathan Haidt
each individual reasoner is really good at one thing: finding evidence to support the position he or she already holds, usually for intuitive reasons.
— Jonathan Haidt
Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.
— Jonathan Haidt
Morality binds and blinds.
— Jonathan Haidt
By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.
— Jonathan Haidt
People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.
— Jonathan Haidt
Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.
— Jonathan Haidt
Reasoning was merely the servant of the passions, and when the servant failed to find any good arguments, the master did not change his mind.
— Jonathan Haidt
Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould
— Jonathan Haidt
Authorities often exploit their subordinates for their own benefit while believing they are perfectly just.
— Jonathan Haidt
Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.
— Jonathan Haidt
Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.
— Jonathan Haidt
Human beings are 90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee.
— Jonathan Haidt
I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.
— Jonathan Haidt
Education must be seen as at least partially an effort to produce the good human being, to foster the good life and the good society."46
— Jonathan Haidt
The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.
— Jonathan Haidt
Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. Without it, there would be chaos and ignorance.
— Jonathan Haidt
A college football game is a superb analogy for religion.
— Jonathan Haidt
Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
— Jonathan Haidt