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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

by Robert M. Sapolsky

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Jan 02, 2026 08:18AM

“At this point a sharp realization burned within me: each man has his “function” but none which he can choose himself, define, or perform as he pleases. It was wrong to desire new gods, completely wrong to want to provide the world with something. An enlightened man had but one duty—to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

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“Proselytizing is a moral imperative and feeds the marketplace of ideas. I want to hear everyone tell the truth as they see it. I want to learn from everyone.”
― Penn Jillette, God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales

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“Selection is both revolutionary and disturbing for the same reason: it explains apparent design in nature by a purely materialistic process that doesn't require creation or guidance by supernatural forces.”
― Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True

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“Habíamos sido felices caminando sobre una cuerda floja, habíamos florecido en un infección de contradicciones, nos habíamos encontrado en un laberinto de paradojas sin mirar nunca al suelo, sin mirar nunca al cielo, sin mirar.”
― Almudena Grandes, Castillos de cartón

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“Fui de uno a otro, llevando en las manos mi dolor—no, no mi dolor sino la inaprehensible naturaleza de nuestro vivir— para que lo inspeccionaran. Algunos acuden a los sacerdotes, yo acudo a mis amigos y a mi propio corazón, y busco por entre frases y fragmentos algo que aún no esté quebrado, yo, para quien no hay belleza bastante en la luna o árbol, para quien el contacto de una persona con otra lo es todo, pero que ni siquiera esto puedo comprender, yo que soy tan imperfecto tan débil, tan indeciblemente solo. Ahí estaba.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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