With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

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Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.

My name is Patricia Lauren Bordeaux, and I, like my creator before me, am a very lonely vampire.

Your most valuable treasures are the ones which cannot be bought or stolen because they live within your spirit.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

We don’t recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.

Be men and women with others and for others: true champions at the service of others.

Man is the hardest animal to kill. If he gets away he will come back to kill you.

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

Yellow is capable of charming God.