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Stefan Molyneux quotes about knowledge
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.
— Stefan Molyneux
Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
— Stefan Molyneux
There is no key to open the heart of another – except curiosity.
— Stefan Molyneux
When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is ‘being offended’.
— Stefan Molyneux
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.
— Stefan Molyneux
What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.
— Stefan Molyneux
Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.
— Stefan Molyneux
Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.
— Stefan Molyneux
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.
— Stefan Molyneux
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.
— Stefan Molyneux
We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.
— Stefan Molyneux, Against The Gods?
The three most important words in a relationship are not, ‘I love you, ‘ but, ‘Tell me more.
— Stefan Molyneux
I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.
— Stefan Molyneux
Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.
— Stefan Molyneux
The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.
— Stefan Molyneux
For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue.
— Stefan Molyneux
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don’t think it’s the children who need to be adjusted.
— Stefan Molyneux
Successful relationships are those relationships were conflicts are successfully resolved and in fact peoples intimacy, closeness, and love are enhanced through the resolution of conflicts. I have always become closer to my wife and to my friends when we have conflicts and work through them successfully because conflicts will always arise. They are an opportunity for intimacy, self-knowledge, and a greater connection.
— Stefan Molyneux
I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn’t listen.
— Stefan Molyneux
Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.
— Stefan Molyneux
Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.
— Stefan Molyneux
I never really grew up until I had kids.
— Stefan Molyneux
Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.
— Stefan Molyneux
The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.
— Stefan Molyneux
Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.
— Stefan Molyneux
The manic relief that comes from the fantasy that we can with one savage slash cut the chains of the past and rise like a phoenix, free of all history, is generally a tipping point into insanity, akin to believing that we can escape the endless constraints of gravity, and fly off a tall building. “I’m freeeee… SPLAT!”.
— Stefan Molyneux
One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.
— Stefan Molyneux
Lies don’t make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.
— Stefan Molyneux
Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.
— Stefan Molyneux
When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they’re merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you everything about how tragically they were raised.
— Stefan Molyneux
Excuses are a promise of repetition.
— Stefan Molyneux
There’s no weakness as great as false strength.
— Stefan Molyneux
The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: “Human Nature”.
— Stefan Molyneux
There’s nothing lonelier than empty relationships. At least when you’re alone you can be yourself, but when you’re in empty relationships you can’t even be yourself.You can be real alone, or you can be a ghost with false friends.Pulse proximity is not intimacy, and it’s worse than no friends at all.
— Stefan Molyneux
Pulse proximity is not intimacy.
— Stefan Molyneux
The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.
— Stefan Molyneux
There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.
— Stefan Molyneux
The only part of you that hurts when you’re given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
— Stefan Molyneux
The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can’t fundamentally be altered.
— Stefan Molyneux
All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.
— Stefan Molyneux
When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.
— Stefan Molyneux
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