"The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor."

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Source : Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.281, Vintage

Jonathan Haidt

#Mind Quotes #Stories Quotes #Logic Quotes

“Life is filled with trapdoors.”
“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”
“Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?”
“Political development should start at the grassroots.”
“To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.”
“If you have a question about anything, the answer can be found in a book somewhere in the library.”
“For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.”

Source : "Everything You Need To Know About Margaret & Walter Keane, Tim Burton’s Latest Obsession" by Katherine Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2014.
“Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.”

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