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"Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink."

-John Connolly, The Burning Soul (Charlie Parker, #10)

"But the soul can burn and not be damned. The soul can burn with a bright fire, and never turn to ash."

-John Connolly, The Burning Soul (Charlie Parker, #10)

"She had not given me the cross to keep the bad men away, as a child might have been expected to do. No, in her mind the bad men could not be kept away. They were coming, and they would have to be fac…"

-John Connolly, The Burning Soul (Charlie Parker, #10)

"There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial part of one's humanity, to exist in a colder, cruel…"

-John Connolly, The Burning Soul (Charlie Parker, #10)

Similar categories in Peter L. Berger's Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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Similar categories in B. F. Skinner's Walden Two (Hackett Classics) book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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• psychology

"The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread."

-B. F. Skinner, Walden Two (Hackett Classics)

"A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself."

-B. F. Skinner, Walden Two (Hackett Classics)

"Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom."

-B. F. Skinner, Walden Two (Hackett Classics)

"The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity."

-B. F. Skinner, Walden Two (Hackett Classics)

Similar categories in Arkady Strugatsky's Hard to Be a God book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

Similar categories in Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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Similar categories in Edward O. Wilson's The Meaning of Human Existence book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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• philosophy
• nonfiction
• sociology
• nature
• science

Similar categories in Slavoj Žižek's The Sublime Object of Ideology book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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Similar categories in Daniel C. Dennett's Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

Similar categories in John Stuart Mill's On Liberty book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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"خير لى أن أكون سقراطا ساخرا , من أن أبقى خنزيرا راضيا"

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Similar categories in Sam Harris's The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

Similar categories in Alan W. Watts's The Way of Zen book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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"I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

"For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

"[T]he joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

"A te elibera de convenție nu înseamnă a o refuza cu dispreț, ci a nu fi amăgit de ea. Înseamnă a fi capabil să o folosești ca pe un instrument, nu a fi folosit de ea."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

Similar categories in Thomas Nagel's What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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Similar categories in Robert M. Sapolsky's Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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• biology
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• philosophy
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Similar categories in Donald D. Hoffman's The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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• neuroscience
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• audiobook

"Once we know the rules that human vision uses to decode messages about fitness, we can use those rules to send the messages we want. Consider jeans."

-Donald D. Hoffman, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

Similar categories in Sean Carroll's Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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• nonfiction
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"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

Similar categories in Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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• psychology
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• sociology
• audiobook

"There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless conquistadors. Indeed, we know of one highly advanced form of intelligence that evolved without this defec…"

-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

"Enlightenment humanism, then, is far from being a crowd-pleaser. The idea that the ultimate good is to use knowledge to enhance human welfare leaves people cold. Deep explanations of the universe, th…"

-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

"This heroic story is not just another myth. Myths are fictions, but this one is true-true to the best of our knowledge, which is the only truth we can have. We believe it because we have reasons to b…"

-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

"Our understanding of who we are, where we came from, how the world works, and what matters in life depends on partaking of the vast and ever-expanding store of knowledge. Though unlettered hunters, h…"

-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Similar categories in Jim Al-Khalili's The World According to Physics book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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• philosophy
• nonfiction
• education
• nature
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"The true beauty of physics, for me, is found not only in abstract equations or in surprising experimental results, but in the deep underlying principles that govern the way the world is."

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

"By thinking about what we don't yet know, we can think about how we can best find out. It is the many questions we have asked over the course of our human history that have given us an ever-more-accu…"

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

"Let me first make two important assumptions, which I will discuss in more detail later on, but will now just say that they are both supported strongly by observational evidence: (1) that the laws of …"

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

"The trustworthiness of science comes not from certainty, but from its very openness about its uncertainty, always calling into question what we currently understand and being prepared to replace that…"

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

Similar categories in Daniel Quinn's Ishmael (Ishmael, #1) book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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"With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?"

-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

"You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer"

-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

"The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity’s captive."

-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

"The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way."

-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

Similar categories in Jonathan Haidt's Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

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

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

Similar categories in Francis Fukuyama's Liberalism and Its Discontents book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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"Нема причин, з яких економічна ефективність має домінувати над усіма іншими соціальними цінностями."

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

"Комуністичні суспільства були схильні цінувати виробництво більше за споживання, що призвело до поганих наслідків: у них були «герої соціалістичної праці», але не було продуктів на полицях магазинів."

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

"Низка людей, які працюють у цій галузі, починаючи з таких постструктуралістів, як Лакан і Дерріда, писали в такий спосіб, який, здавалося, навмисне затуманював їхні думки й захищав від відповідальнос…"

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

"As instituições financeiras comportam-se de modo muito diferente do que as empresas na economia real. Ao contrário de uma companhia de manufatura, um grande banco de investimento é sistemicamente per…"

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

Similar categories in Kate Manne's Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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• sociology
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"by] torture for the rest of their slutty lives."

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"厌女症不应该被理解为一种对女性根深蒂固的强烈仇恨心理，而应该理解成父权制（patriarchy）在“执法"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"function. In my previous book, Down Girl, I argued that misogyny should not be understood as a monolithic, deep-seated psychological hatred of girls and women. Instead, it’s best conceptualized as th…"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"Studies show there is but one circumstance in which men’s and women’s household work will tend to approach parity: when she works full-time and he is unemployed. And even then, the operative word is …"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

Similar categories in Frans de Waal's Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

• science
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• nonfiction
• nature
• audiobook

"I seriously doubt that the smile is our species’s “happy"

-Frans de Waal, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

"Estar resentido por el éxito de otro puede parecer mezquino, pero a la larga evita que abusen de uno."

-Frans de Waal, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

"Nuestros sentimientos de felicidad dependen de la comparación entre los ingresos propios y los ajenos."

-Frans de Waal, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

"Al ser parte del tejido de la naturaleza, constantemente sopesamos nuestros intereses con los de otros organismos, casi siempre a favor de los nuestros."

-Frans de Waal, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

Similar categories in Batja Mesquita's Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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Similar categories in António Damásio's The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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Similar categories in David Sloan Wilson's This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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Similar categories in Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition book and Patricia S. Churchland's Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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• education
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• nature
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"Heartfelt conviction is not, alas, a guarantee of moral decency."

-Patricia S. Churchland, Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

"I may long for certainty, but I have to live with doing the best I can."

-Patricia S. Churchland, Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

"Certainty about one’s moral stance might be soothing, but it tends to blinker us to damage we are about to cause."

-Patricia S. Churchland, Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

"Science itself does not adjudicate on moral values. When all available facts are in, we may still face the questions “What should we do?"

-Patricia S. Churchland, Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

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