Jonathan Haidt Self Quotations

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence.

The consistent finding of psychological research is that we are fairly accurate in our perceptions of others. It's our self-perceptions that are distorted because we look at ourselves in a rose-colored mirror.

America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.