If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence.

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history,quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum.

People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

We can call this "the progress principle": Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. Shakespeare captured it perfectly: "Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."

Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.