Daniel Katz (1903–1998) American psychologist
Daniel Katz (1964) ""The motivational basis of organizational behavior". In: Behavioral science, 1964. p. 132
“Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.”
As quoted in Familiar Medical Quotations (1968) by Maurice Benjamin Strauss, p. 288
1960s
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Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 55
“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
Vol. 2, Ch. 1, § 1
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
Stephen Jay Gould book Ever Since Darwin
"Biological Potentiality vs. Biological Determinism", p. 251
Ever Since Darwin (1977)
Brian Bates (1944) British academic
The Way of the Wyrd : Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer (1983)
Context: All our lives are locked together in the shimmering world of wyrd in which all things are enmeshed and connected to one another by the threads of wyrd. … The wyrd sisters spin the web of wyrd and weave the loom of life, they do not thereby determine it … the wyrd sisters simply express the will of wyrd. And so do we. We cannot control our lives, because we too are inseparable aspects of wyrd and express its will. But this is not the same as saying our life is determined. Rather, it is saying we live like an ocean voyager, trimming our sails to the winds and tides of wyrd as we skim across the waters of life. And cresting the waves of wyrd is something that happens at every instant. The pattern of life is not woven ahead of time, like cloth to be worn later as a tunic. Rather, life is woven at the very instant you live it.
Jorge Luis Borges book Other Inquisitions
"The Flower of Coleridge" ["La flor de Coleridge"] — The title of this work makes reference to a line by Samuel Coleridge in Anima Poetæ : From the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895), p. 282 : "If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye, what then?"
Other Inquisitions (1952)
Peter Singer (1946) Australian philosopher
Preface To The 2011 edition, p. xi
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981)
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
34 min 00 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Persistence of Memory [Episode 11]
Context: What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities.
“The equality of the human race is the pivot upon which our government rests and resolves.”
Owen Lovejoy (1811–1864) American politician
As quoted in His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838&ndash;64 https://web.archive.org/web/20160319090912/https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&pg=PA333#v=onepage&q&f=false (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 333 <br class="br">1860s, Speech (June 1862)