Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
Interpretation
Our understanding of religion is influenced by both cultural and biological factors.
This quote by Daniel Kahneman suggests that our inclination towards religion is not purely a matter of personal choice or belief but is also shaped by our cultural background and biological instincts. It highlights the complex interplay between the environment we grow up in and our inherent psychological makeup, leading to a natural receptiveness to religious ideas and practices.
In practice
In a discussion about the influence of cultural factors on belief systems.
We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.
Laziness is built deep into our nature.
You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.
It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.
In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
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