"It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social mammals and that we retain within our biological nature elements of these evolved responses. We have learned considerably more about this responses, and we are beginning to to understand how they interact with our capacity to reason."

-- Peter Singer

#Lying Quotes #Roots Quotes #Elements Quotes

“Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.”
“When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there, every day.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable. To my mind, the plausibility of internalist views about justification is dramatically decreased when one becomes vividly aware of what introspection and reflection actually achieve.”
“I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.”
“We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.”
“After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.”

Source : "SDCC: Brian K. Vaughan is 'Living His Life 22 Pages at a Time'" by Casey Gilly, www.cbr.com. August 02, 2014.
“The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.”

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