Topos Map Quotes & Sayings

Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear. — Richard Dawkins

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain. — Daniel Goleman

A conqueror, I say, can change the course of everything, and muffled tyranny is the first thing which is liable to violence. — Montesquieu

We seek for an explanation,
crawling on this sacred Ground,
that is crying for salvation,
but not many hear the sound.
We yield to regeneration,
lost,we hope we could be found..
once exalted Gods creations,
fallen,but not yet profound.
Only Love,gives clear reflection,
that can turn our fate around.
Once we accept imperfection,
to ourselves we'll be rebound. — Aleksandra Ninkovic

There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death. — Sue Grafton

By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules. — Iain M. Banks

And your brain doesn't naturally know how to think the way Zeckhauser knows how to play bridge. "for example," people do not react symmetrically to loss and gain. Well maybe a great bridge player like Zeckhauser does, but that's a trained response. Ordinary people, subconsciously affected by their inborn tendencies ... — Charlie Munger