Robert Sapolsky

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• Stated most straightforwardly, most of earth’s humans have inherited their beliefs about the nature of birth and death and everything in between and thereafter from preliterate Middle Eastern pastoralists.

  Behave (2017), ch. 9, “Centuries to Millennia Before”, p. 313

  • History
  • Religion

• If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you’re in big trouble.

  Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences (2001)

  • Comedy
  • Science

• The far-from-original point I will try to make now should seem obvious: There is an unsettling similarity between the rituals of the obsessive-compulsive and the rituals of the observantly religious.

  “Circling the Blanket for God”, The Trouble with Testosterone (1997), p. 263

  • Anti-Religion
  • Religion

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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