Empathy zooms you in on an individual and, as a result, it's narrow, it's innumerate, it's racist, it's very biased.

- Paul Bloom

Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.

- Paul Bloom

Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the …

- Paul Bloom

When I write I'll sometimes say things which are somewhat controversial - not because I'm seeking out controversy for its own sake, but if I don't ha…

- Paul Bloom

Over the last few years, I've been focusing on questions having to do with the self, and questions having to do with morality. I'm very interested in…

- Paul Bloom

I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

- Paul Bloom

I'm really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we get from virtual experie…

- Paul Bloom

Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only a…

- Paul Bloom

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods.…

- Paul Bloom