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.”

“What we do not confront, we inhabit.”

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

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

“Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.”

“We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.”

“Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.”

“This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.”

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy”

“So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds around the very movement of your soul, it involved learning things somehow already known, as though much of what he was somehow existed apart from him. A kind of enlightenment accompanied these first lessons, a deeper understanding of self.”

“If you want to fly, grow wings of faith.”