Richard Dawkins Quotes About Psychology

Quotes about: Psychology

• Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

  Richard Dawkins

  Psychology, Desire, Belief

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that the woman cannot conceive because she is on the pill. Yet they find that their sexual desire is in no way diminished by the knowledge. Sexual desire is sexual desire and its force, in an individual's psychology, is independent of the ultimate Darwinian pressure that drove it. It is a strong urge which exists independently of its ultimate rationale.

  Richard Dawkins

  Strong, Couple, Independent

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it sociobiology or evolutionary psychology - relating to where we get our moral sense and why we value the idea of altruism, and locating both answers in behavioral adaptations for the preservation of our genes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, Years, Psychology

  Source: inters.org

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