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“Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

“The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it. This pronouncement seems to state the obvious and yet it is false. Men grow old, the end grows near, each moment becomes more and more valuable and there is no time to waste on recollection. It's important to understand the mathematical paradox in nostalgia, that it is most powerful in early youth , when the volume of life that has passed is quite small.”
― Milan Kundera

“We must keep in mind the story of the statistician who drowned while trying to wade across a river with an average depth of four feet.”
― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

“Generally, the more anxious and insecure we are, the more we invest in these symbolic extensions of ourselves.”
― Ernest Becker, The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man