QUOTES BY Jonathan Haidt

The reason why we all feel we have to give our kid a smartphone by the time they're ten is because everyone else did. And your kid says, you know, dad, I'm the only one. I'm being left out. So we're all, you know, we're all doing that.

We're over protecting our children offline and under protecting them online.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.

The lesson Buddha and Marcus Aurelius had taught centuries earlier: "Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it".

If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.

Science is a smorgasbord, and Google will guide you to the study that's right for you.

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

Nowadays, secular people often see the Enlightenment as a battle between two mortal enemies; on one side was science, with its principal weapon, reason, and on the other side was religion, with its ancient shield of superstition. Reason defeated superstition, light replaced darkness.

Egalitarianism seems to be rooted more in the hatred of domination than in the love of equality per se.