Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas with kin selection the "goal" of our genes is to actually help another organism, with reciprocal altruism the goal is that the organism be left under the impression that we've helped; the impression alone is enough to bring the reciprocation. Robert Wright
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  1. Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you. - Karl Lagerfeld
  2. Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. - Brian Tracy
  3. I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy. - Kahlil Gibran
  4. Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired... - Richard Dawkins
  5. True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand. - Henry James
More Quotes By Robert Wright
  1. We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.
  2. Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.
  3. Once you the forces that govern behavior, it's harder to blame the behaver
  4. ..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way
  5. Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?
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