#truism

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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.


Jane Goodall


#compassion #humanity #love #love

Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas with kin selection the "goal" of our genes is to actually help another organism, with reciprocal altruism the goal is that the organism be left under the impression that we've helped; the impression alone is enough to bring the reciprocation.


Robert Wright


#evolution #natural-selection #reciprocity #nature

There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best.


Agatha Christie


#nature

I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.


Mercedes Lackey


#heroes #heroism #heroism

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.


Richard Dawkins


#because #born #generosity #let us #selfish