{"quotes":[{"text":"Good and evil are both within us. And when our primitive ancestors humanized these natural qualities of the mind, they got two completely opposite supernatural characters. One was the merciful lord almighty and the other was the wicked devil.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["aboriginal-culture","ancient-culture","brainy","brainy-life-lessons","evolution","evolutionary-biology","evolutionary-psychology","life","pearls-of-wisdom","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-men","primitive-psyche","primitive-religion","primitive-urges","religion-and-science","religious","social-psychology","truth","truth"],"id":60767,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["evolutionary-psychology","human-behavior","human-nature","neurobiology","neuroscience","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-human-nature","primitive-urges","self-control","self-regulation","self-restraint"],"id":102210,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Nature of Human is neither good nor bad, it is simply a fusion of primitive instinctual urges and modern humane conscience.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["conscience","conscience","evolution","evolutionary-psychology","good-and-bad","human-behavior","human-condition","human-mind","human-nature","humman-being","life","life-lessons","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-urges"],"id":222510,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"From the perspective of a general human being – a non-scientist, the most valuable element of the human mental life, is Emotion – a tiny portion of our conscious mental world. We humans as a species crave for emotional stimulation. And in many cases, as it happens, we are actually slaves to our emotions.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","emotions","emotions-and-attitude","emotions-and-control","human-behavior","human-nature","life-lessons","love","love","mind","mind","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-urges"],"id":223225,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"After the dinosaurs, it is us the humans that have become the dominant species on planet earth. However, unlike the dinosaurs, we have become the rulers of this planet not by ferociousness, but by intelligence, even though we are no less ferociousness than them.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","consciousness","evolution","evolution-of-consciousness","evolutionary-biology","evolutionary-psychology","human","human-behavior","human-development","human-mind","human-nature","humanism","humanity","humanity-and-society","intelligence","intelligence","intelligence","life","no-war","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-men","primitive-urges","science","truth","war","warfare"],"id":232942,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"In the beginning of our love lives, it is the beastly instinct of sexual attraction that drives us all. The butterflies in your stomach simply signal your mind that the person in front of you would make a fantastic mate to make babies with. Without this primeval drive, you won’t ever fall for anyone in your entire lifetime. The very attraction you feel towards a person in a romantic way, is a mental manifestation of a subconscious desire to mate with that person.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","falling-in-love","falling-in-love","human-behavior","human-nature","life","life","love","love","mating","mating-couple","pearls-of-wisdom","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-psyche","primitive-urges","relationship","relationship","romance","science-of-mind","science","truth"],"id":276923,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Regardless of all our pretenses, deep within, we are still unconsciously the same old cave-people.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["basic-instinct","brainy","consciousness","evolution","evolutionary-psychology","human-behavior","primitive","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-urges"],"id":407842,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}