Best quotes by Steven Pinker on Nature

Checkout quotes by Steven Pinker on Nature

• ‟ Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

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• ‟ Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

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• ‟ A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.

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• ‟ The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

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• ‟ Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

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

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

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