Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.

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

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

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.

With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.

The enlightened are superior to the learned.

Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.

A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

Did she just call me a bleeding toothpick? Kill her! Kill her now!

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

I smoke till I got chest pains

Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved.

Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.

You are the only person in existence who can use your potential. It is an awesome responsibility.