All Quotes By Tag: Self-knowledge
“Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”
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“Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to ‘learn.’ What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying ‘Know thyself.”
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“Sanity is not about confrontation. It’s about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying “no” to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.”
“To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that’s not really getting along with anyone. That’s just self erasure.”
“The three most important words in a relationship are not, ‘I love you,’ but, ‘Tell me more.”
“Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.”
“We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.”
“Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.”
“What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.”
“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”
“There is no key to open the heart of another – except curiosity.”
“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is ‘being offended’.”
“Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.”
“The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.”
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“SCREW CHILDREN! That’s the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don’t comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on “screw children”, and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us.”