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"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
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"The resolved mind hath no cares."
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"A mind grows by what it feeds on."
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"Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind."
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"The mind of a baby is a tabula rasa, society writes information on his mind."
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"Never mind a world that can't see past brutality."
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"Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows."
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"Thoughts have no barrier."
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"Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind."
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"My mind is an instrument of peaceI am the peaceMy heart sing the song of peaceMy mind dances with peaceI laugh with peaceMy soul is longing for peaceMy spirit is the source of peace."
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"The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts."
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"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
Mind
"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
"People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections."
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"The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero."
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"Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture."
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"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
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"But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo."
Possibility
"The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution."
Nature
"There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization."
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"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."
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