Jonathan Haidt Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

  Jonathan Haidt

  School, Goal, India

• I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.

  Jonathan Haidt

  War, Growth, Culture

• I believe that an evolutionary approach specifying the foundation of our moral sense can allow us to appreciate Hindu and Muslim cultures where women are veiled and seem to us to lead restricted lives.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Believe, Appreciate, Foundation

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

• I think the greatest truths, the ones that you find in every culture that has any sort of history of reflection of writing, the greatest truth is that there's nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. That's the way Shakespeare put it. But you get basically the same idea from Buddha, from the Bhagavad Gita in India, and from the Stoics in ancient Greece and Rome.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Writing, Reflection, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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