David Buss famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular love are well traveled and their markers are well understood by many - the mesmerizing attraction, the idealization obsession, the sexual afterglow, the profound self-sacrifice, and the desire to combine DNA. But true love takes its own course through uncharted territory. It knows no fences, eludes modern measurement, and seems scientifically woolly. But I know true love exists. I just canâ€™t prove it.
-- David Buss

#Believe #Sacrifice #Love Is
There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility
-- David Buss

#Agents #Influence #Economics
Women who are too easy to attract are perceived as less desirable.
-- David Buss

#Easy
Academics are, on average, pussies.
-- David Buss

#Average #
Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition,
-- David Buss

#Games #Competition #Evolution

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?
The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.
This is what our love isâ€“â€“a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
People say love can be developed, but in the end, the only person you love is yourself. That's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most.

David Buss famous quotes

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