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.
I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.
It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
Granny Weatherwaz was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about witches. At least, not if he wanted to wake up in the morning the same shape as he went to bed.
It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.
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