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Get busy living, or get busy dying. #StephenKing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 9, 2024

Don't always consider all your options. Don't necessarily go for the outcome that seems best every time. #BrianChristian

Don't always consider all your options. Don't necessarily go for the outcome that seems best every time. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2024

[A nationalist] sees history, especially contemporary history, as the endless rise and decline of great power units, and every event that happens seems to him a demonstration that his own side is on the up-grade and some hated rival is on the down-grade. #GeorgeOrwell

[A nationalist] sees history, especially contemporary history, as the endless rise and decline of great power units, and every event that happens seems to him a demonstration that his own side is on the up-grade and some hated rival is on the down-grade. #GeorgeOrwell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2024

If a parent or carer is warm, consistent, attuned, steady and kind, the child will thrive. It will have confidence in itself and in the world. It will know how to love and will have the courage to start relationships, secure [and calmly complain when neglected] #TheSchoolOfLife

If a parent or carer is warm, consistent, attuned, steady and kind, the child will thrive. It will have confidence in itself and in the world. It will know how to love and will have the courage to start relationships, secure [and calmly complain when neglected] #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2024

A fellow NCO in the Marines once told me that his priorities were the following: provider, parent, spouse, and change agent. In that order. #GeneKim

A fellow NCO in the Marines once told me that his priorities were the following: provider, parent, spouse, and change agent. In that order. #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2024

Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs. #BrianChristian

Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2024

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life--and for me, for writing as well. #HarukiMurakami

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life--and for me, for writing as well. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2024

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. #HenryKissinger

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 7, 2024

[Some] need to dial up a faith in Free Will, others need more of a mellow acceptance of Determinism. The oldest debate in philosophy isn't [unanswerable]. We just have to answer it with more of a sense of what we need to believe in to be calmer and more fulfilled #TheSchoolOfLife

[Some] need to dial up a faith in Free Will, others need more of a mellow acceptance of Determinism. The oldest debate in philosophy isn't [unanswerable]. We just have to answer it with more of a sense of what we need to believe in to be calmer and more fulfilled #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 7, 2024

...rather amazingly, an IAT developed for monkeys shows that they, too, exhibit implicit preferences for in-group members, associating good things like fruit with in-group members and bad things like spiders with out-group members. #JoshuaGreene

...rather amazingly, an IAT developed for monkeys shows that they, too, exhibit implicit preferences for in-group members, associating good things like fruit with in-group members and bad things like spiders with out-group members. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 7, 2024

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, but we cannot move forward if we're still holding onto the pain of that past and wishing it was something else. #OprahWinfrey

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, but we cannot move forward if we're still holding onto the pain of that past and wishing it was something else. #OprahWinfrey — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 7, 2024

The people and institutions who leave a mark provide you with better things to love, a new field of knowledge or a new form of carpentry or auto repair, or a new vision of social change. #DavidBrooks

The people and institutions who leave a mark provide you with better things to love, a new field of knowledge or a new form of carpentry or auto repair, or a new vision of social change. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 6, 2024

We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts--which means that we've lost sight of who we really are. #SusanCain

We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts--which means that we've lost sight of who we really are. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 6, 2024

There is a value in leaving behind your other concerns and narrowing down your attention to one thing, sentence after sentence, page after page. #JohannHari

There is a value in leaving behind your other concerns and narrowing down your attention to one thing, sentence after sentence, page after page. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 6, 2024

However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. #DanielKahneman

However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 6, 2024

[Sex] cannot occur without a high degree of vulnerability on both sides. The physical act requires an almost unavoidable degree of physical and emotional intimacy--which explains why sex can be so difficult between two people who lack trust... #TheSchoolOfLife

[Sex] cannot occur without a high degree of vulnerability on both sides. The physical act requires an almost unavoidable degree of physical and emotional intimacy--which explains why sex can be so difficult between two people who lack trust... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 6, 2024

You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power--he's free again. #AleksandrSolzhenitsyn

You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power--he's free again. #AleksandrSolzhenitsyn — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 5, 2024

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. #AleksandrSolzhenitsyn

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. #AleksandrSolzhenitsyn — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 5, 2024

With this moral authority there was the power to better defend myself against racism, but there was also a new, abusive power very similar to the abusive power that had been wielded against me--a power of racial privilege deriving solely from the color of my skin. #ShelbySteele

With this moral authority there was the power to better defend myself against racism, but there was also a new, abusive power very similar to the abusive power that had been wielded against me--a power of racial privilege deriving solely from the color of my skin. #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 5, 2024

Men can't 'multi-task' apparently. #RobertWebb

Men can't 'multi-task' apparently. #RobertWebb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 5, 2024

If a government is corrupt and fails to improve people's lives, enough citizens will eventually realise this and replace the government. But government control of the media undermines Lincoln's logic, because it prevents citizens from realising the truth. #YuvalNoahHarari

If a government is corrupt and fails to improve people's lives, enough citizens will eventually realise this and replace the government. But government control of the media undermines Lincoln's logic, because it prevents citizens from realising the truth. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 5, 2024

Instead, the lesson is that false beliefs, once they've become culturally entrenched--once they've become tribal badges of honor--are very difficult to change, and changing them is no longer simply a matter of educating people. #JoshuaGreene

Instead, the lesson is that false beliefs, once they've become culturally entrenched--once they've become tribal badges of honor--are very difficult to change, and changing them is no longer simply a matter of educating people. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 4, 2024

The two biggest causes of evil are two that we think are good, and that we try to encourage in our children: high self-esteem and moral idealism. #JonathanHaidt

The two biggest causes of evil are two that we think are good, and that we try to encourage in our children: high self-esteem and moral idealism. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 4, 2024

[White guilt] says that white supremacy is not a moral truth that decency requires us to observe, but rather an evil that decency requires us to condemn. This new virtue demands that whites condemn the idea of their own racial superiority. #ShelbySteele

[White guilt] says that white supremacy is not a moral truth that decency requires us to observe, but rather an evil that decency requires us to condemn. This new virtue demands that whites condemn the idea of their own racial superiority. #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 4, 2024

[When] forgiveness feels impossible, therapists speak of [...] 'splitting', [declaring] some people to be entirely good and others [as] entirely awful [to] protect ourselves from what can feel like the impossible dangers of disappointment or grown-up ambivalence. #TheSchoolOfLife

[When] forgiveness feels impossible, therapists speak of [...] 'splitting', [declaring] some people to be entirely good and others [as] entirely awful [to] protect ourselves from what can feel like the impossible dangers of disappointment or grown-up ambivalence. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 4, 2024

As all schoolchildren learn, nature abhors a vacuum, and into the postmodern vacuum new ideas began to creep, with the intention of providing explanations and meanings of their own. #DouglasMurray

As all schoolchildren learn, nature abhors a vacuum, and into the postmodern vacuum new ideas began to creep, with the intention of providing explanations and meanings of their own. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 4, 2024

With these distinctive traditions and millennial habits of superiority, China entered the modern age a singular kind of empire: a state claiming universal relevance for its culture and institutions but making few efforts to proselytize #HenryKissinger

With these distinctive traditions and millennial habits of superiority, China entered the modern age a singular kind of empire: a state claiming universal relevance for its culture and institutions but making few efforts to proselytize #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 3, 2024

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life. — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 3, 2024

Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to notice possibilities that our ancestors could not imagine, or didn't want us to imagine. #YuvalNoahHarari

Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to notice possibilities that our ancestors could not imagine, or didn't want us to imagine. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 3, 2024

The way we work seems fixed and unchangeable--until it changes, and then we realise it didn't have to be like that in the first place. #JohannHari

The way we work seems fixed and unchangeable--until it changes, and then we realise it didn't have to be like that in the first place. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 3, 2024

We began to question our long-held beliefs about our own society. This perhaps was one of the most profound and complicated feelings experienced by many Chinese students [having studied overseas]. #QianNing

We began to question our long-held beliefs about our own society. This perhaps was one of the most profound and complicated feelings experienced by many Chinese students [having studied overseas]. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 3, 2024

What we learn from the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience. This is the tyranny of the remembering self. #DanielKahneman

What we learn from the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience. This is the tyranny of the remembering self. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 3, 2024

It's as if we are on a succession of accelerating treadmills and have to jump from one to another at an ever-increasing rate. This is clearly not sustainable, potentially leading to the collapse of the entire urbanized socioeconomic fabric. #GeoffreyWest

It's as if we are on a succession of accelerating treadmills and have to jump from one to another at an ever-increasing rate. This is clearly not sustainable, potentially leading to the collapse of the entire urbanized socioeconomic fabric. #GeoffreyWest — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2024

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. #Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. #Thoreau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2024

Loyalty is involved, and so pity ceases to function. #GeorgeOrwell

Loyalty is involved, and so pity ceases to function. #GeorgeOrwell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2024

When countries desperately need reserve currencies to service their reserve currency-denominated debts, and to buy things from sellers who only accept reserve currencies, they can go bankrupt. #RayDalio

When countries desperately need reserve currencies to service their reserve currency-denominated debts, and to buy things from sellers who only accept reserve currencies, they can go bankrupt. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2024

But even though social class may once have been a good predictor of ideology, that link has been largely broken in modern times, when the rich go both ways (industrialists mostly right, tech billionaires mostly left) #JonathanHaidt

But even though social class may once have been a good predictor of ideology, that link has been largely broken in modern times, when the rich go both ways (industrialists mostly right, tech billionaires mostly left) #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2024

No worse fate could befall a group emerging from oppression than to find itself gripped by a militancy that sees justice in making others responsible for its advancement. #ShelbySteele

No worse fate could befall a group emerging from oppression than to find itself gripped by a militancy that sees justice in making others responsible for its advancement. #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2024

Hyper-individualism erodes our obligations and responsibilities to others and our kind. #DavidBrooks

Hyper-individualism erodes our obligations and responsibilities to others and our kind. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2024

The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small. #HenryKissinger

The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2024

[A] reason for Buddha's emphasis on detachment may have been the turbulent times he lived in: Kings and city-states were making war, and people's lives and fortunes could be burned up overnight. When life is unpredictable and dangerous (as it was for the Stoic...) #JonathanHaidt

[A] reason for Buddha's emphasis on detachment may have been the turbulent times he lived in: Kings and city-states were making war, and people's lives and fortunes could be burned up overnight. When life is unpredictable and dangerous (as it was for the Stoic...) #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2024

We carry within us a gamut of expectations that remorselessly torment us and inflict on us some of the many symptoms of self-hatred: a tense spine, insomnia, malfunctioning bowels [...] a feeling of dread and, in the wake of crises, a desire to kill ourselves. #TheSchoolOfLife

We carry within us a gamut of expectations that remorselessly torment us and inflict on us some of the many symptoms of self-hatred: a tense spine, insomnia, malfunctioning bowels [...] a feeling of dread and, in the wake of crises, a desire to kill ourselves. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2024

[On death pools] This attitude is an unwholesome mix of frivolity and obsession--toying with death even while fixating upon it. #MichaelSandel

[On death pools] This attitude is an unwholesome mix of frivolity and obsession--toying with death even while fixating upon it. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2024

Many of those blessings for which our pious and pessimistic ancestors offered thanks, we now pride ourselves on having worked hard enough to take for granted. #AlaindeBotton

Many of those blessings for which our pious and pessimistic ancestors offered thanks, we now pride ourselves on having worked hard enough to take for granted. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2024

Above I mentioned Kant's categorical imperative, which he famously summarized thus: Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or that of another, always as an end and never as a means only. #JoshuaGreene

Above I mentioned Kant's categorical imperative, which he famously summarized thus: Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or that of another, always as an end and never as a means only. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2024

No matter how many options we have, the real challenge is figuring out how to evaluate them. #AzizAnsari

No matter how many options we have, the real challenge is figuring out how to evaluate them. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2024

The adversity hypothesis has a weak and a strong version. In the weak version, adversity can lead to growth, strength, joy and self-improvement, by the three mechanisms of posttraumatic growth... #JonathanHaidt

The adversity hypothesis has a weak and a strong version. In the weak version, adversity can lead to growth, strength, joy and self-improvement, by the three mechanisms of posttraumatic growth... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2024

...we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone #HarukiMurakami

...we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2024

Of all the things that people do in the name of God, killing a girl because she doesn't bleed on her wedding night is among the most cruel. Yet the hymen [...] remains an object of worship among many religions and societies around the world... #NicholasDKristof

Of all the things that people do in the name of God, killing a girl because she doesn't bleed on her wedding night is among the most cruel. Yet the hymen [...] remains an object of worship among many religions and societies around the world... #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2024

The six Gulf Cooperation countries comprising Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Oman had granted asylum to a grand total of zero Syrian refugees by 2016. #DouglasMurray

The six Gulf Cooperation countries comprising Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Oman had granted asylum to a grand total of zero Syrian refugees by 2016. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2024

The French philosopher Andr矇 Comte-Sponville argues that politeness is the prerequisite for the great virtues: Morality is like a politeness of the soul, an etiquette of inner life, a code of duties. It is a series of practices that make you considerate of others. #DavidBrooks

The French philosopher Andr矇 Comte-Sponville argues that politeness is the prerequisite for the great virtues: Morality is like a politeness of the soul, an etiquette of inner life, a code of duties. It is a series of practices that make you considerate of others. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2024

This hierarchy [scripture/memory] turns one thing into sacred, another into filthy. What we consider sacred becomes an authority; what comes from an authority becomes our truth. And this kind of truth renders us incapable, paradoxically, of ever experiencing real truth! #Sadhguru

This hierarchy [scripture/memory] turns one thing into sacred, another into filthy. What we consider sacred becomes an authority; what comes from an authority becomes our truth. And this kind of truth renders us incapable, paradoxically, of ever experiencing real truth! #Sadhguru — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2024

...as evolutionary social scientists like to say, the WEIRD ones: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic. At least, the highly educated among us are, in our best moments. #StevenPinker

...as evolutionary social scientists like to say, the WEIRD ones: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic. At least, the highly educated among us are, in our best moments. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2024

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity. #SimonedeBeauvoir

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 30, 2024

Suffice it to say that deception is simply part of human nature--a fact that makes perfect sense in light of the competitive (selfish) logic of evolution. Deception allows us to reap certain benefits without paying the full costs. #KevinSimler

Suffice it to say that deception is simply part of human nature--a fact that makes perfect sense in light of the competitive (selfish) logic of evolution. Deception allows us to reap certain benefits without paying the full costs. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2024

Something seems wrong in a world where half the e-mail messages sent are urgent. Can everything really be that important? #GeneKim

Something seems wrong in a world where half the e-mail messages sent are urgent. Can everything really be that important? #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2024

If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. #WarrenBuffett

If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. #WarrenBuffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2024

Anonymity fosters deindividuation--the loss of an individual sense of self--which lessens self-restraint and increases one's willingness to go along with the mob. #JonathanHaidt

Anonymity fosters deindividuation--the loss of an individual sense of self--which lessens self-restraint and increases one's willingness to go along with the mob. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2024

We need to imagine the turmoil, disappointment, worry and sheer confusion in people who may outwardly appear merely aggressive. #TheSchoolOfLife

We need to imagine the turmoil, disappointment, worry and sheer confusion in people who may outwardly appear merely aggressive. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2024

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. #FrancisBacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. #FrancisBacon — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 29, 2024

Gallup found that the proportion of Americans who never read a book in any given year tripled between 1978 and 2014 [...] This has escalated to the point that by 2017, the average American spent seventeen minutes a day reading books and 5.4 hours on their phone. #JohannHari

Gallup found that the proportion of Americans who never read a book in any given year tripled between 1978 and 2014 [...] This has escalated to the point that by 2017, the average American spent seventeen minutes a day reading books and 5.4 hours on their phone. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2024

As we've seen, all criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. #MarshallRosenberg

As we've seen, all criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2024

If you really want truth, you need to escape the black hole of power and allow yourself to waste a lot of time wandering here and there on the periphery. Revolutionary knowledge rarely makes it to the center, because the center is built on existing knowledge #YuvalNoahHarari

If you really want truth, you need to escape the black hole of power and allow yourself to waste a lot of time wandering here and there on the periphery. Revolutionary knowledge rarely makes it to the center, because the center is built on existing knowledge #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2024

Would a musician feel flattered by the loud applause of an audience if he knew that they were nearly all deaf, and that, to conceal their infirmity, they set to work to clap vigorously as soon as ever they saw one or two persons applauding? #Schopenhauer

Would a musician feel flattered by the loud applause of an audience if he knew that they were nearly all deaf, and that, to conceal their infirmity, they set to work to clap vigorously as soon as ever they saw one or two persons applauding? #Schopenhauer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2024

It isn't a coincidence that skepticism about climate change tends to be the preserve of the nationalist right. You rarely see left-wing socialists tweet that climate change is a Chinese hoax. #YuvalNoahHarari

It isn't a coincidence that skepticism about climate change tends to be the preserve of the nationalist right. You rarely see left-wing socialists tweet that climate change is a Chinese hoax. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2024

We need a moral system that can resolve disagreements among groups with different moral ideals, just as ordinary, first-order morality resolves disagreements among individuals with different selfish interests. #JoshuaGreene

We need a moral system that can resolve disagreements among groups with different moral ideals, just as ordinary, first-order morality resolves disagreements among individuals with different selfish interests. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 28, 2024

Just below the surface, love contains a hope for reparation and education. We usually think of education as something harsh imposed upon us against our will, but love promises to educate us in a more gentle and seductive way. #TheSchoolOfLife

Just below the surface, love contains a hope for reparation and education. We usually think of education as something harsh imposed upon us against our will, but love promises to educate us in a more gentle and seductive way. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2024

The idea that the right way of valuing goods and social practices depends on the purposes and ends those practices serve. #MichaelSandel

The idea that the right way of valuing goods and social practices depends on the purposes and ends those practices serve. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2024

Mathematics leads you to a very scary conclusion: since there is only one real world, whereas the number of potential virtual worlds is infinite, the probability that you happen to inhabit the sole real world is almost zero. #YuvalNoahHarari

Mathematics leads you to a very scary conclusion: since there is only one real world, whereas the number of potential virtual worlds is infinite, the probability that you happen to inhabit the sole real world is almost zero. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2024

Trauma leaves your shipwrecked. You are left to rebuild your inner world. #BruceDPerry

Trauma leaves your shipwrecked. You are left to rebuild your inner world. #BruceDPerry — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2024

You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menancingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this [an antilibrary]. #NassimNicholasTaleb

You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menancingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this [an antilibrary]. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2024

Pay attention to your own actions--the little things you say and do--as well as what behaviors you are rewarding or discouraging. All of it works together to tell the story of what you care about and how you believe a great team should work together. #JulieZhuo

Pay attention to your own actions--the little things you say and do--as well as what behaviors you are rewarding or discouraging. All of it works together to tell the story of what you care about and how you believe a great team should work together. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 27, 2024

We'd interpret our worries, reversals and troubles as unavoidable landmarks, not aberrations or fateful warnings. Confidence isn't the belief that we won't meet obstacles: it is the recognition difficulties are an inescapable part of all worthwhile contributions. #TheSchoolOfLife

We'd interpret our worries, reversals and troubles as unavoidable landmarks, not aberrations or fateful warnings. Confidence isn't the belief that we won't meet obstacles: it is the recognition difficulties are an inescapable part of all worthwhile contributions. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 26, 2024

Political scientists followed up on Todorov's initial research by identifying a category of voters for whom [System 1/intuition likely plays] a large role. They found what they were looking for among politically uninformed voters who watch a great deal of [TV] #DanielKahneman

Political scientists followed up on Todorov's initial research by identifying a category of voters for whom [System 1/intuition likely plays] a large role. They found what they were looking for among politically uninformed voters who watch a great deal of [TV] #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 26, 2024

Pain is inevitable, from this perspective, but suffering is an optional extra, resulting from our attachments, which represent our attempt to try to deny the unavoidable truth that everything is impermanent. #OliverBurkeman

Pain is inevitable, from this perspective, but suffering is an optional extra, resulting from our attachments, which represent our attempt to try to deny the unavoidable truth that everything is impermanent. #OliverBurkeman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 26, 2024

If you own this story you get to write the ending. #BreneBrown

If you own this story you get to write the ending. #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 26, 2024

Focusing on individual and aggregate happiness was here [...] an obvious strategy to side-line an deflect attention from more objective and complex socio-economic indicators of welfare and the good life, such as redistribution of income, material inequalities... #EvaIllouz

Focusing on individual and aggregate happiness was here [...] an obvious strategy to side-line an deflect attention from more objective and complex socio-economic indicators of welfare and the good life, such as redistribution of income, material inequalities... #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 26, 2024

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. #MahatmaGandhi

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2024

...only properly bad people don't lie awake at night worrying about their characters. It has generally never occurred to the most difficult or dangerous people on the planet that they might be lacking. #TheSchoolOfLife

...only properly bad people don't lie awake at night worrying about their characters. It has generally never occurred to the most difficult or dangerous people on the planet that they might be lacking. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2024

Stoic tranquility was a psychological state marked by the absence of negative emotions, such as grief, anger, and anxiety, and the presence of positive emotions, such as joy. #WilliamBIrvine

Stoic tranquility was a psychological state marked by the absence of negative emotions, such as grief, anger, and anxiety, and the presence of positive emotions, such as joy. #WilliamBIrvine — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2024

Once your mind is inhabited with a certain view of the world, you will tend to only consider instances proving you to be right. Paradoxically, the more information you have, the more justified you will feel in your views. #NassimNicholasTaleb

Once your mind is inhabited with a certain view of the world, you will tend to only consider instances proving you to be right. Paradoxically, the more information you have, the more justified you will feel in your views. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2024

...humans (and all other species for that matter) are locked in the game of natural selection, which often rewards selfish, competitive behavior #RobinHanson

...humans (and all other species for that matter) are locked in the game of natural selection, which often rewards selfish, competitive behavior #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2024

Many parents, K-12 teachers, professors, and university administrators have been unknowingly teaching a generation of students to engage in the mental habits commonly seen in people who suffer from anxiety and depression. #JonathanHaidt

Many parents, K-12 teachers, professors, and university administrators have been unknowingly teaching a generation of students to engage in the mental habits commonly seen in people who suffer from anxiety and depression. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 25, 2024

One has many more supposed friends when one is up than when one is down, because most people like to be with winners and shun losers. True friends are the opposite. #RayDalio

One has many more supposed friends when one is up than when one is down, because most people like to be with winners and shun losers. True friends are the opposite. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2024

Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart. #GaryChapman

Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2024

Chinese students, while they enjoyed their personal freedom, also felt lonely and helpless. The loneliness was deepened by the students' separation from their country, families, friends, and relatives and by their marginalized status as foreigners. #QianNing

Chinese students, while they enjoyed their personal freedom, also felt lonely and helpless. The loneliness was deepened by the students' separation from their country, families, friends, and relatives and by their marginalized status as foreigners. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2024

I've become quite efficient, both technically and physically, at opening a hole in the hard rock and locating a new water vein. So as soon as I notice one water source drying up, I can move on right away to another. #HarukiMurakami

I've become quite efficient, both technically and physically, at opening a hole in the hard rock and locating a new water vein. So as soon as I notice one water source drying up, I can move on right away to another. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2024

If you are to punish a man retributively you must injure him. If you are to reform him you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries. #GeorgeBernardShaw

If you are to punish a man retributively you must injure him. If you are to reform him you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries. #GeorgeBernardShaw — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2024

The people in your life who have been hard to please do not represent normality. #TheSchoolOfLife

The people in your life who have been hard to please do not represent normality. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 24, 2024

The very word discovery has something bluntly un-Classical in it. Classical man took good care not to take the cover, the material wrapping, off anything cosmic, but to do just this is the most characteristic impulse of a Faustian nature. #OswaldSpengler

The very word discovery has something bluntly un-Classical in it. Classical man took good care not to take the cover, the material wrapping, off anything cosmic, but to do just this is the most characteristic impulse of a Faustian nature. #OswaldSpengler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2024

The young girl throws herself into things with ardor, because she is not yet deprived of her transcendence; and the fact that she accomplishes nothing, that she is nothing, will make her impulses only the more passionate. #SimonedeBeauvoir

The young girl throws herself into things with ardor, because she is not yet deprived of her transcendence; and the fact that she accomplishes nothing, that she is nothing, will make her impulses only the more passionate. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2024

The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. #BettyFriedan

The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2024

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. #CarlSagan

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. #CarlSagan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2024

When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates. #ThichNhatHanh

When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2024

And that was the real import of this morning: not that a disgruntled young Gestapo officer yelled at me, but that I felt no indignation, rather a real compassion #MarshallRosenberg

And that was the real import of this morning: not that a disgruntled young Gestapo officer yelled at me, but that I felt no indignation, rather a real compassion #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 23, 2024

What actually causes suffering are the beliefs you hold about those things. #OliverBurkeman

What actually causes suffering are the beliefs you hold about those things. #OliverBurkeman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2024

The great metropolitan centres are too big to love. They constantly force us to admit that we are nothing. #TheSchoolOfLife

The great metropolitan centres are too big to love. They constantly force us to admit that we are nothing. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2024

What really counts is having the right plans to work from in the first place. #TheSchoolOfLife

What really counts is having the right plans to work from in the first place. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2024

[The ideals of our society] tend to be pegged to financial success, sexual propriety, decorum, marriage, sobriety, the sanctity of family and the purity of children. The more of these ideals one flouts, the harsher will be the penalties. #TheSchoolOfLife

[The ideals of our society] tend to be pegged to financial success, sexual propriety, decorum, marriage, sobriety, the sanctity of family and the purity of children. The more of these ideals one flouts, the harsher will be the penalties. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2024

Oxytocin is a neurotransmitter and hormone that plays an important role in maternal care in many mammalian species. Genes that increase the human brain's sensitivity to oxytocin are correlated with higher levels of empathy, and spraying oxytocin into people's noses #JoshuaGreene

Oxytocin is a neurotransmitter and hormone that plays an important role in maternal care in many mammalian species. Genes that increase the human brain's sensitivity to oxytocin are correlated with higher levels of empathy, and spraying oxytocin into people's noses #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2024

When self-esteem is low, we are often manipulated by fear... We live more to avoid pain than to experience joy. #NathanielBranden

When self-esteem is low, we are often manipulated by fear... We live more to avoid pain than to experience joy. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 22, 2024

[Eastern Germans] were indoctrinated by central planning theories and abhorred the idea of free enterprise, of many competing industries and the successful ones growing at the expense of the unsuccessful. It was not in their culture. #LeeKuanYew

[Eastern Germans] were indoctrinated by central planning theories and abhorred the idea of free enterprise, of many competing industries and the successful ones growing at the expense of the unsuccessful. It was not in their culture. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2024

In a nation distracted by faction [...] a solitary individual, without any influence, excluded, by his own candour, from the confidence of either party, and who, though he may be one of the wisest, is necessarily [...] one of the most insignificant men in the society. #AdamSmith

In a nation distracted by faction [...] a solitary individual, without any influence, excluded, by his own candour, from the confidence of either party, and who, though he may be one of the wisest, is necessarily [...] one of the most insignificant men in the society. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2024

Grand theory is drunk on syntax, blind to semantics. Its practitioners do not truly understand that when we define a word we are merely inviting others to use it as we would like it to be used; that the purpose of definition is to focus argument upon fact... #CWrightMills

Grand theory is drunk on syntax, blind to semantics. Its practitioners do not truly understand that when we define a word we are merely inviting others to use it as we would like it to be used; that the purpose of definition is to focus argument upon fact... #CWrightMills — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2024

[While many people] would enjoy being part of such a community, how many are willing to pay their dues by adopting a worldview that conflicts with so many of their other beliefs, and which nonbelievers are apt to ridicule? These high costs are exactly the point. #RobinHanson

[While many people] would enjoy being part of such a community, how many are willing to pay their dues by adopting a worldview that conflicts with so many of their other beliefs, and which nonbelievers are apt to ridicule? These high costs are exactly the point. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2024

The principle must always rule that ideas are not born of other ideas, philosophies of other philosophies; they are a continually renewed expression of real historical development. #AntonioGramsci

The principle must always rule that ideas are not born of other ideas, philosophies of other philosophies; they are a continually renewed expression of real historical development. #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2024

Some nations are like trees, they grow tall and straight, and they do not need support. And some nations are like creepers, they depend on a tree and they creep up the tree. #LeeKuanYew

Some nations are like trees, they grow tall and straight, and they do not need support. And some nations are like creepers, they depend on a tree and they creep up the tree. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 21, 2024

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules. #PaulArden

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules. #PaulArden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2024

One can try to evade the problem by adopting a 'morality of intentions'. What's important is what I intend, not what I actually do or the outcome of what I do [but in an interconnected world] the supreme moral imperative becomes the imperative to know. #YuvalNoahHarari

One can try to evade the problem by adopting a 'morality of intentions'. What's important is what I intend, not what I actually do or the outcome of what I do [but in an interconnected world] the supreme moral imperative becomes the imperative to know. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2024

In my emotional impoverishment, I tend to see other people essentially as sources of approval or disapproval. I do not appreciate them for who they are in their own right. I see only what they can or cannot do for me. #NathanielBranden

In my emotional impoverishment, I tend to see other people essentially as sources of approval or disapproval. I do not appreciate them for who they are in their own right. I see only what they can or cannot do for me. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 20, 2024

...insisting that a college degree is the primary route to a respectable job and a decent life creates a credentialist prejudice that undermines the dignity of work and demeans those who have not been to college. #MichaelSandel