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“Before I can say I am, I was. Heraclitus and I, prophets of flux, know that the flux is composed of parts that imitate and repeat each other. Am or was, I am cumulative, too. I am everything I ever was, whatever you and Leah may think. I am much of what my parents and especially my grandparents were -- inherited stature, coloring, brains, bones (that part unfortunate), plus transmitted prejudices, culture, scruples, likings, moralities, and moral errors that I defend as if they were personal and not familial.”

Character Past Values Family Identity Personality Morality Heritage Personal History Predispositions

Book:Angle of Repose

Source: Angle of Repose

“...[T]he sublimity and intrinsic dignity of the command in duty are so much the more evident, the less the subjective impulses favor it and the more they oppose it, without being able in the slightest degree to weaken the obligation of the law or to diminish its validity.”

Commandments Natural Man Predispositions

Book:Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Source: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

“One brain’s blueprint may promote joy more readily than most; in another, pessimism reigns. Whether happiness infuses or eludes a person depends, in part, on the DNA he has chanced to receive.”

Love Neuroscience Nature Vs Nurture Predispositions

Book:A General Theory of Love

Source: A General Theory of Love

“He was often angry at people because they contrarily refused to fit in nicely with his theories. And, of course, it was the people who were wrong. The theories had been advanced by the most Eminent Authorities, and proved by carefully selected case histories. His one satisfaction in life was that so many of the laws he had advocated to make people conform to these theories had been passed-despite strong opposition.”

Predispositions

Book:They'd Rather Be Right

Source: They'd Rather Be Right