Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with people and projects bey….

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason..

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction..

Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick a metaphor it wil….

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide.

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement..

Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*--from finding the right relati….

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteou….

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion..

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work ….

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

We are like a rider on top of a gigantic elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll go where we want, but if he has other desir….

If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths..

While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact ….

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothi….

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second..

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness..

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each….

But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated. Selfishness….

Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace..

Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that….