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

“Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.”

“Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.”

“Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.”

“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.”

“I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.”

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

“At this point we can finally see what's really at stake in our peculiar habit of defining ourselves simultaneously as master and slave, reduplicating the most brutal aspects of the ancient household in our very concept of ourselves, as masters of our freedoms, or as owners of our very selves. It is the only way that we can imagine ourselves as completely isolated beings. There is a direct line from the new Roman conception of liberty – not as the ability to form mutual relationships with others, but as the kind of absolute power of "use and abuse" over the conquered chattel who make up the bulk of a wealthy Roman man's household – to the strange fantasies of liberal philosophers like Hobbes, Locke, and Smith, about the origins of human society in some collection of thirty- or forty-year-old males who seem to have sprung from the earth fully formed, then have to decide whether to kill each other or begin to swap beaver pelts.”

“The so-called”

“Возвращение”

“The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.”

“The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.”