One reason for the current attractiveness of spirituality is that, because its source in intuition is so radically different from the densely factual, rational nature of science, it generates a feeling that people interpret as a sign of truth and leads to a vitality that reassures those disheartened by a materialism that challenges each person's free will and the anomie of contemporary life. ibid. p. 85

When a child answers an adult's question the interrogator's first task is to figure out what question the child was answering. ibid. 87

A preference for one object or event over another is usually a function of the relation between the object and the category to which it is assigned. Stated differently, every human judgement, whether a feeling, person, or event, is colored by what the agent chooses as a comparison.
Optimists have a habit of selecting a desirable category; pessimists choose an undesirable one; realists, who see both sides, are usually ambivalent. ibid. p.93
Traditional Chinese lawdistinguishes between stealing from a close relative an sealing from a stranger because the social relationship between one person and another dictations the propriety of a behavior. Western law, which is indifferent to the relation of the criminal to the victim and is concerned only with the decontextualized act of steaing, fails to honor this distinction. ibid. p94