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Stefan Molyneux quotes about philosophy
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
You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.
— Stefan Molyneux
Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
— Stefan Molyneux
Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.
— Stefan Molyneux
If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.
— 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
We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we’re always sick.
— Stefan Molyneux
Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.
— 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
Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.
— 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
Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you’re not paying.
— Stefan Molyneux
Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.
— Stefan Molyneux
There’s a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they’re leftists.
— Stefan Molyneux
Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
— 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
If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.
— Stefan Molyneux
Deep connection is the antidote to madness.
— 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
Asshole Proximity Disorder
— 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
Record what you can, pursue your passions, connect with the world, fight the good fight, defy evil, shine incandescently as best you can. And it doesn’t matter what field it’s in but, it does matter that we leave something that accumulates over time.
— Stefan Molyneux
No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.
— 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
Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.
— Stefan Molyneux
Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.
— Stefan Molyneux
Most people, if philosophy touches them, they shatter, they atomize, they turn to dust. It is win/lose between philosophy and delusion, and most people are almost entirely composed of delusion. They’re only allowed as much reality as serves the masters. But they’re not allowed any reality which disturbs their masters…
— Stefan Molyneux
If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote.
— Stefan Molyneux
Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can’t possibly act on.
— Stefan Molyneux
All we think about in the cycle of violence is men. If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children.
— Stefan Molyneux
Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.
— Stefan Molyneux
We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.
— 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
We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it’s a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.
— Stefan Molyneux
The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance rather than the internalization of moral standards.
— 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 expression of preferences is the essence of love.
— Stefan Molyneux
Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.
— Stefan Molyneux
There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.
— Stefan Molyneux
Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.
— Stefan Molyneux
We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.
— Stefan Molyneux
The only part of you that hurts when you’re given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
— Stefan Molyneux
We raise predators by treating children as prey.
— Stefan Molyneux
The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat.
— Stefan Molyneux
Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.
— Stefan Molyneux
We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.
— Stefan Molyneux
All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.
— Stefan Molyneux
The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.
— 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
Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business…because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.
— Stefan Molyneux
A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.
— Stefan Molyneux
The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.
— Stefan Molyneux
If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or don’t want, is just called being honest. It doesn’t control him at all. You’re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and it’s destructive to a relationship.
— Stefan Molyneux
Statism ends with an eye roll.
— Stefan Molyneux
Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as “armed teens”?
— Stefan Molyneux
You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That’s like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.
— Stefan Molyneux
Rights” are something made up by governments to make you feel like you’re buying something with your taxes.
— Stefan Molyneux
You are constantly being trained to be heroic only in the service of your masters – only in slaughter and sacrifice and subjugation. But there is no heroism in serving your masters. Real heroism is questioning why you have masters at all.All these stories, all these fantasies, all these superpowers – are designed to steal heroism from you, to make it impossible, fantastical, remote, and unachievable – and make you useful to your masters (as a hit man, if needed). What is the opposite of this?The opposite of fantasy is philosophy. The opposite of mythology is integrity. And integrity is truth in action.
— Stefan Molyneux
Historical definition of a country’s borders… “…here’s where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.
— Stefan Molyneux
Spiritual”: religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.
— Stefan Molyneux
Dr. Peter Boghossian’s A Manual for Creating Atheists is a precise, passionate, compassionate and brilliantly reasoned work that will illuminate any and all minds capable of openness and curiosity. This is not a bedtime story to help you fall asleep, but a wakeup call that has the best chance of bringing your rational mind back to life.(Review of Dr. Peter Boghossian’s book, ‘A Manual for Creating Atheists’)
— Stefan Molyneux
Can social progress be made without government?It’s like saying ‘can happiness be achieved without the initiation of violence? Can romance be achieved without rape? Can profitability be achieved without theft? Can economic growth be achieved without the mass indebted enslavement and counterfeiting of the federal reserve?’.
— Stefan Molyneux
Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.
— Stefan Molyneux
Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.
— Stefan Molyneux
You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think ‘how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?’.It’s incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us.
— Stefan Molyneux
All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.
— Stefan Molyneux
To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.
— Stefan Molyneux
The government is ethics rape in perpetuity
— Stefan Molyneux
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