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"At first happiness might seem like just desserts for biological fitness (more accurately, the states that would have led to fitness in the environment in which we evolved). We are happier when we are healthy, well-fed, comfortable, safe, prosperous, knowledgeable, respected, non-celibate, and loved. Compared to their opposites, these objects of striving are conducive to reproduction. The function of happiness would be to mobilize the mind to seek the keys to Darwinian fitness. When we are unhappy, we work for the things that make us happy; when we are happy, we keep the status quo. The problem is, how much fitness is worth striving for?"
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"Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace."
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
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"You can love again."
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Personal Development
"Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple."
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"Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things."
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"My life is wondrous, and I appreciate it every day!"
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"We savour on great memories of happy times."
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"You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have."
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"A joyful heart is an endless flowing stream."
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"A year of contentment is worth more than ten of prosperity."
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"Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language."
Art
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
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"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
Mind
"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."
Equality
"There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization."
Culture
"What is truly arresting about our kind is better captured in the story of the Tower of Babel, in which humanity, speaking a single language, came so close to reaching heaven that God himself felt threatened."
Philosophy
"My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries."
Nature
"So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents."
Family
"By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu."
Science
"A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others."
Creativity
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