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Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated--for good or ill--if only you find the right levers. ~ Levitt & Dubner, "Superfreakonomics ↗

— Levitt & Dubner

#incentives #innate #people #nature

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#hell #human-nature #instinct #nature

In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society. ↗

— Robert Greene

#inclinations #societal-contribution #nature

The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. - Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. ↗

— David Mitchell

#re-incarnation #nature

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#heaven #inclusion #nature #religion #swedenborg

Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous. ↗

— Laura Pedersen

#fate #god #religion #religion

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new. ↗

— Epictetus

#reincarnation #religion #religion

The more rigid and exclusive one makes the border between philosophy and theology, the more that distinction itself has to fall on the side of theology, and the more inaccessible that very distinction becomes to philosophy ↗

— Gregory B. Sadler

#christian-philosophy #distinctions #intellectual-life #philosophy #religion

I am working on unconditional self acceptance. If I do poor or well, weather I am liked or not. I am a imperfect person in a imperfect world. I set goals and work very hard for them Its what makes me happy so I go on. ↗

— Charles Hibbs

#principal #religion #religion

One of the monks was doing something incomprehensible at the altar, and the others would occasionally chant a few phrases of mumbo jumbo. ↗

— Ken Follett

#religion #religion