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

“Excuses are a promise of repetition.”

“We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.”

“The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".”

“Honesty requires that we communicate our thoughts and feelings, not our conclusions.”

“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.”

“Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.”

“When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.”

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”

“When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you'll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger. Your sense of good and evil may be the same as theirs, or near it, in which case you have to excuse them. Or your sense of good and evil may differ from theirs. In which case they're misguided and deserve your compassion. Is that so hard?”

“Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.”

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”

“You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.”