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Alturism Quotes

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Frans de Waal
“Friedrich Nietzsche, who famously gave us the 鈥楪od is dead鈥� phrase was interested in the sources of morality. He warned that the emergence of something (whether an organ, a legal institution, or a religious ritual) is never to be confused with its acquired purpose: 鈥楢nything in existence, having somehow come about, is continually interpreted anew, requisitioned anew, transformed and redirected to a new purpose.鈥�

This is a liberating thought, which teaches us to never hold the history of something against its possible applications. Even if computers started out as calculators, that doesn鈥檛 prevent us from playing games on them. (47) (quoting Nietzsche, the Genealogy of Morals)”
Frans de Waal, The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

Edward O. Wilson
“[S]elfish members win within groups, but groups of altruists best groups of selfish members. (63)”
Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence