Humans feel compassion primarily for those they conceive of as being part of themselves

I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!

Humans had to evolve what no other primate had: a sense of identity with a group so powerful that it could swallow up the individual identity, at least to a la…

What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because [they] force us or because we're afraid they might force us?

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Those must have all been important to me once. What I am now grew from that. A former self is a fool, an insufferable ass, but he's still human, you'd no more …

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.