Philosophy Quote by Stefan Molyneux — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty.”

“Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.”

“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.”

“Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.”

“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.”

“The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.”

“You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.”

“As soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself, it always creates the world in its own image.”

“I will tell you why I became a philosopher. I became a philosopher because I wanted to be able to talk about many, many things, ideally with knowledge, but sometimes not quite the amount of knowledge that I would need if I were to be a specialist in them. It allows you to be many different things. And plurality and complexity are very, very important to me.”

“What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.”

“Philosophy is a root of science. Science is a branch of a philosophical tree.”

“If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest -- like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort, remaining what it was implacably -- was out of their hands, beyond.”