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

“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.”

“SCREW CHILDREN!”

“Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.”

“What we do not confront, we inhabit.”

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

“Excuses are a promise of repetition.”

“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

“The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.”

“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust. Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others. It does not allow that the sacrifices imposed on a few are outweighed by the larger sum of advantages enjoyed by many. Therefore in a just society the liberties of equal citizenship are taken as settled; the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests.”

“There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.”