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The good listener doesn't moralise. They know their own minds well enough not to be surprised or frightened by strangeness. #TheSchoolOfLife

The good listener doesn't moralise. They know their own minds well enough not to be surprised or frightened by strangeness. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 1, 2024

A divorce is like a symphony with a screeching sound at the end--the fact that it ended badly does not mean it was all bad. #DanielKahneman

A divorce is like a symphony with a screeching sound at the end--the fact that it ended badly does not mean it was all bad. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 31, 2024

We have cooperative brains, it seems, because cooperation provides material benefits, biological resources that enable our genes to make more copies of themselves. Out of evolutionary dirt grows the flower of human goodness. #JoshuaGreene

We have cooperative brains, it seems, because cooperation provides material benefits, biological resources that enable our genes to make more copies of themselves. Out of evolutionary dirt grows the flower of human goodness. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 31, 2024

But if the aberrations of foolish youth made me forget such wise lessons for a time, I have the happiness to sense at last that whatever the inclination one may have toward vice, it is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost. #Rousseau

But if the aberrations of foolish youth made me forget such wise lessons for a time, I have the happiness to sense at last that whatever the inclination one may have toward vice, it is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost. #Rousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 31, 2024

Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences. When promised quick profits, respond with a quick 'no'. #WarrenBuffett

Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences. When promised quick profits, respond with a quick 'no'. #WarrenBuffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 31, 2024

[Some] less-educated village priests saw the rituals related to purity and pollution as basic rules of the game, things you simply must do because religious tradition demands it. [Many] took a broader view and saw purity and pollution practices as means to an end. #JonathanHaidt

[Some] less-educated village priests saw the rituals related to purity and pollution as basic rules of the game, things you simply must do because religious tradition demands it. [Many] took a broader view and saw purity and pollution practices as means to an end. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 31, 2024

No investigation of our divine future can ignore our own animal past, or our relations with other animals--because the relationship between humans and animals is the best model we have for future relations between superhumans and humans. #YuvalNoahHarari

No investigation of our divine future can ignore our own animal past, or our relations with other animals--because the relationship between humans and animals is the best model we have for future relations between superhumans and humans. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 31, 2024

[Grandparents] know that whatever is done, one's children will turn out very far from perfect--and therefore the intensely agitating worry that one might be making a mistake is usually a bit misplaced. #TheSchoolOfLife

[Grandparents] know that whatever is done, one's children will turn out very far from perfect--and therefore the intensely agitating worry that one might be making a mistake is usually a bit misplaced. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 30, 2024

Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to a child. They deny the years when she can no longer look forward to giving birth, even if she repeats the act over and over again. #BettyFriedan

Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to a child. They deny the years when she can no longer look forward to giving birth, even if she repeats the act over and over again. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 30, 2024

...when one has not been deeply loved oneself... Hasn't this had some effect on my life as a militant--has it not tended to make me sterile and reduce my quality as a revolutionary by making everything a matter of pure intellect, of pure mathematical calculation? #AntonioGramsci

...when one has not been deeply loved oneself... Hasn't this had some effect on my life as a militant--has it not tended to make me sterile and reduce my quality as a revolutionary by making everything a matter of pure intellect, of pure mathematical calculation? #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 30, 2024

We tend to label the psychological capacity that allows us to penetrate the minds of other people in a remote way as empathy. #TheSchoolOfLife

We tend to label the psychological capacity that allows us to penetrate the minds of other people in a remote way as empathy. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 30, 2024

Love is more than a cultural ideal; it is a social foundation for the self. Yet, the cultural resources that make it constitutive of the self have been depleted. #EvaIllouz

Love is more than a cultural ideal; it is a social foundation for the self. Yet, the cultural resources that make it constitutive of the self have been depleted. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 30, 2024

American society is like a giant machine in which money is continuously produced and simultaneously swallowed. Everybody--whether businessman, scholar, or politician--is spun around the swirling vortex, and nobody can get out. #QianNing

American society is like a giant machine in which money is continuously produced and simultaneously swallowed. Everybody--whether businessman, scholar, or politician--is spun around the swirling vortex, and nobody can get out. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 30, 2024

Adam II wants to have a serene inner character, a quiet but solid sense of right and wrong--not only to do good, but to be good. Adam II wants to love intimately, to sacrifice self in the service of others, to live in obedience to some transcendent truth... #DavidBrooks

Adam II wants to have a serene inner character, a quiet but solid sense of right and wrong--not only to do good, but to be good. Adam II wants to love intimately, to sacrifice self in the service of others, to live in obedience to some transcendent truth... #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 29, 2024

As some people joke, we may not possess free will, but we possess free won't. #DavidBrooks

As some people joke, we may not possess free will, but we possess free won't. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 29, 2024

It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patterns can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours. #CharlesDuhigg

It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patterns can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 29, 2024

If there's something I can't do but want to, I won't relax until I'm able to do it. #HarukiMurakami

If there's something I can't do but want to, I won't relax until I'm able to do it. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 29, 2024

First, if you want reliable information, pay good money for it. If you get your news for free, you might well be the product. #YuvalNoahHarari

First, if you want reliable information, pay good money for it. If you get your news for free, you might well be the product. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 29, 2024

The interpretation of the world through the lens of 'social justice', 'identity group politics' and 'intersectionalism' is probably the most audacious and comprehensive effort since the end of the Cold War at creating a new ideology. #DouglasMurray

The interpretation of the world through the lens of 'social justice', 'identity group politics' and 'intersectionalism' is probably the most audacious and comprehensive effort since the end of the Cold War at creating a new ideology. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 28, 2024

If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it. #HenryKissinger

If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 28, 2024

The less you agree with the policies of your superiors, the more energy you must direct to their accomplishment. #DavidBrooks

The less you agree with the policies of your superiors, the more energy you must direct to their accomplishment. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 28, 2024

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. #DaleCarnegie

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. #DaleCarnegie — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 28, 2024

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. #LordChesterfield

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. #LordChesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 28, 2024

...many deprive themselves of as much of it as they can, and laws human and divine together can hardly put a stop to the disorder. I ask, if it was ever known that a savage took it into his head, when at liberty, to complain of life or to make away with himself. #Rousseau

...many deprive themselves of as much of it as they can, and laws human and divine together can hardly put a stop to the disorder. I ask, if it was ever known that a savage took it into his head, when at liberty, to complain of life or to make away with himself. #Rousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 28, 2024

Successful high-flyers are typically prone to ignoring the interplay of blind fortune when they credit their career trajectories to their canny business sense or brute self-belief. We tell the story we want to tell, and we live out those stories every day. #DerrenBrown

Successful high-flyers are typically prone to ignoring the interplay of blind fortune when they credit their career trajectories to their canny business sense or brute self-belief. We tell the story we want to tell, and we live out those stories every day. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 27, 2024

Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way. It's up to you to use that independence to good effect. #SusanCain

Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way. It's up to you to use that independence to good effect. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 27, 2024

If something's worth doing, it's worth giving it your best--or in some cases 'beyond' your best. #HarukiMurakami

If something's worth doing, it's worth giving it your best--or in some cases 'beyond' your best. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 27, 2024

If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants. #GaryChapman

If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 27, 2024

When religious communities minister to the poor, when religious colleges teach their students, they minister to and teach them as whole people, who need not just money but dignity, love, and purpose. #DavidBrooks

When religious communities minister to the poor, when religious colleges teach their students, they minister to and teach them as whole people, who need not just money but dignity, love, and purpose. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 27, 2024

What singles out 'bad taste' is merely that the desire for compensation has grown particularly acute because the deprivation has been correspondingly intense. #TheSchoolOfLife

What singles out 'bad taste' is merely that the desire for compensation has grown particularly acute because the deprivation has been correspondingly intense. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 27, 2024

Once we are able to interpret someone's pain-inducing behaviour as having roots in their own pain, we're on the threshold of a remarkable steps. It then appears that in truth, no one in this world is ever simply 'nasty'. They are always hurt #TheSchoolOfLife

Once we are able to interpret someone's pain-inducing behaviour as having roots in their own pain, we're on the threshold of a remarkable steps. It then appears that in truth, no one in this world is ever simply 'nasty'. They are always hurt #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 26, 2024

Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. Without it, there would be chaos and ignorance. #JonathanHaidt

Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. Without it, there would be chaos and ignorance. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 26, 2024

There is a principle in philosophy and rhetoric called the principle of charity, which says that one should interpret other people's statements in their best, most reasonable form, not in the worst or most offensive way possible. #JonathanHaidt

There is a principle in philosophy and rhetoric called the principle of charity, which says that one should interpret other people's statements in their best, most reasonable form, not in the worst or most offensive way possible. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 26, 2024

If more Americans worked for a summer teaching English at a school like Mukhtar's in Pakistan, or working at a hospital like HEAL Africa in Congo, our entire society would have a richer understanding of the world around us. #NicholasDKristof

If more Americans worked for a summer teaching English at a school like Mukhtar's in Pakistan, or working at a hospital like HEAL Africa in Congo, our entire society would have a richer understanding of the world around us. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 26, 2024

Through work and through love, we act out the level of our confidence and our sense of personal worth. The drama of our life is the external reflection of our internal vision of ourselves. #NathanielBranden

Through work and through love, we act out the level of our confidence and our sense of personal worth. The drama of our life is the external reflection of our internal vision of ourselves. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 26, 2024

Women can match men as far as hatred, greed, and abuse are concern, but when push comes to shove...men are more willing to engage in raw physical violence. This is why, throughout history, warfare has been a masculine prerogative. #YuvalNoahHarari

Women can match men as far as hatred, greed, and abuse are concern, but when push comes to shove...men are more willing to engage in raw physical violence. This is why, throughout history, warfare has been a masculine prerogative. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 26, 2024

Even though pharmaceutical companies and market forces were beginning to inject vast amounts of money into university research labs in the 1990s, [the scientists interviewed] did not believe they were being asked to lower their standards, cheat, lie... #JonathanHaidt

Even though pharmaceutical companies and market forces were beginning to inject vast amounts of money into university research labs in the 1990s, [the scientists interviewed] did not believe they were being asked to lower their standards, cheat, lie... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 25, 2024

The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk. #BenjaminHoff

The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 25, 2024

...school is primarily about credentialing, its goal is to separate the wheat (good future worker bees) from the chaff (slackers, daydreamers, etc.). And if school were easy or fun, it wouldn't serve this function very well. #RobinHanson

...school is primarily about credentialing, its goal is to separate the wheat (good future worker bees) from the chaff (slackers, daydreamers, etc.). And if school were easy or fun, it wouldn't serve this function very well. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 25, 2024

If you don't speak a person's primary love language, that person will not feel loved, even though you may be speaking the other four. #GaryChapman

If you don't speak a person's primary love language, that person will not feel loved, even though you may be speaking the other four. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 25, 2024

You must meet people, because you must have human contact if you want to broaden your perspective. #LeeKuanYew

You must meet people, because you must have human contact if you want to broaden your perspective. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 25, 2024

The library should contain as much of what you don't know as your financial means, mortgage rates and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. #NassimNicholasTaleb

The library should contain as much of what you don't know as your financial means, mortgage rates and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 24, 2024

...there will already be the first stumbling articulations of the crucial inner voice announcing the small person's true destiny. It appears not to strike us as peculiar to expect a five-and-a-half-year-old to understand their identity in the adult labour market. #TheSchoolOfLife

...there will already be the first stumbling articulations of the crucial inner voice announcing the small person's true destiny. It appears not to strike us as peculiar to expect a five-and-a-half-year-old to understand their identity in the adult labour market. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 24, 2024

When we express appreciation, it means that we recognize the value of the other person's contribution to our relationship. Each of us expends our energy and abilities in ways that benefit our relationship. #GaryChapman

When we express appreciation, it means that we recognize the value of the other person's contribution to our relationship. Each of us expends our energy and abilities in ways that benefit our relationship. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 24, 2024

We can use the whole world as an orchard in which to nurture a diversity of hopes that will always outstrip the inevitable, yet only ever occasional and survivable, crushing disappointment. #TheSchoolOfLife

We can use the whole world as an orchard in which to nurture a diversity of hopes that will always outstrip the inevitable, yet only ever occasional and survivable, crushing disappointment. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 24, 2024

The power of love over fear was well expressed in the New Testament: There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear (1 John 4:18). #JonathanHaidt

The power of love over fear was well expressed in the New Testament: There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear (1 John 4:18). #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 24, 2024

If the Will's power is unconscious, why do we persist in trying to engage it consciously? #DerrenBrown

If the Will's power is unconscious, why do we persist in trying to engage it consciously? #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 24, 2024

Safetyism is the cult of safety--an obsession with eliminating threats (both real and imagined) to the point at which people become unwilling to make reasonable trade-offs demanded by other practical and moral concerns. #JonathanHaidt

Safetyism is the cult of safety--an obsession with eliminating threats (both real and imagined) to the point at which people become unwilling to make reasonable trade-offs demanded by other practical and moral concerns. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 23, 2024

Sacredness is so irrepressible that it intrudes repeatedly into the modern profane world in the form of crypto-religious behavior. #JonathanHaidt

Sacredness is so irrepressible that it intrudes repeatedly into the modern profane world in the form of crypto-religious behavior. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 23, 2024

I would ask also, whether a social or a natural life is most likely to become insupportable to those who enjoy it. We see around us hardly a creature in civil society, who does not lament his existence #JeanJacquesRousseau

I would ask also, whether a social or a natural life is most likely to become insupportable to those who enjoy it. We see around us hardly a creature in civil society, who does not lament his existence #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 23, 2024

The sentimental protection of childhood falls away, and, to one's great anger, a range of horrible but profoundly important realisations come into view. #TheSchoolOfLife

The sentimental protection of childhood falls away, and, to one's great anger, a range of horrible but profoundly important realisations come into view. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 23, 2024

We don't have to be persuaded of anything: the effects [of certain pieces of music] occur at a physical level first and they in turn influence the character of our thoughts. #TheSchoolOfLife

We don't have to be persuaded of anything: the effects [of certain pieces of music] occur at a physical level first and they in turn influence the character of our thoughts. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 23, 2024

If you ask people to sing a song together, or to march in step, or just to tap out some beats together on a table, it makes them trust each other more and be more willing to help each other out, in part because it makes people feel more similar to each other. #JonathanHaidt

If you ask people to sing a song together, or to march in step, or just to tap out some beats together on a table, it makes them trust each other more and be more willing to help each other out, in part because it makes people feel more similar to each other. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 22, 2024

We often measure loyalty in our relationships by the degree to which a belief is irrational or unwarranted by the evidence. For example, we don't consider it loyal for an employee to stay at a company when it's paying her twice the salary she could make elsewhere #KevinSimler

We often measure loyalty in our relationships by the degree to which a belief is irrational or unwarranted by the evidence. For example, we don't consider it loyal for an employee to stay at a company when it's paying her twice the salary she could make elsewhere #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 22, 2024

We should, where we can, dare to leave home. #TheSchoolOfLife

We should, where we can, dare to leave home. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 22, 2024

When ownership isn't clear, things slip through the cracks. This doesn't just happen in meetings; every time you send an email to more than one person about an issue that requires a follow-up, the recipients may be confused about whom you are expecting to do what. #JulieZhuo

When ownership isn't clear, things slip through the cracks. This doesn't just happen in meetings; every time you send an email to more than one person about an issue that requires a follow-up, the recipients may be confused about whom you are expecting to do what. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 22, 2024

No purpose? Then, no positive emotion, as most of what drives us forward with hope intact is the experience of approaching something we deeply need and want. #JordanPeterson

No purpose? Then, no positive emotion, as most of what drives us forward with hope intact is the experience of approaching something we deeply need and want. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 22, 2024

The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation--abandoning or submerging your personal values, judgment, and interests. Some people tell themselves this is a virtue. It is a virtue that corrodes self-esteem. #NathanielBranden

The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation--abandoning or submerging your personal values, judgment, and interests. Some people tell themselves this is a virtue. It is a virtue that corrodes self-esteem. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 21, 2024

...that originality [of the paintings of Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso] has become one with our perception, so that, naturally, it has become a part of us, a reference point, as it were. #HarukiMurakami

...that originality [of the paintings of Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso] has become one with our perception, so that, naturally, it has become a part of us, a reference point, as it were. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 21, 2024

The mature like themselves enough not to suspect that everyone would have a good reason to mock and slander them. #TheSchoolOfLife

The mature like themselves enough not to suspect that everyone would have a good reason to mock and slander them. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 21, 2024

American legitimacy was the Great Society's most important purpose. And it achieved this purpose through a dissociation from the ill will toward blacks that had characterized all of American history. #ShelbySteele

American legitimacy was the Great Society's most important purpose. And it achieved this purpose through a dissociation from the ill will toward blacks that had characterized all of American history. #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 21, 2024

It takes nothing away from the Enlightenment thinkers to identify some critical ideas about the human condition and the nature of progress that we know and they didn't. Those ideas, I suggest, are entropy, evolution, and information. #StevenPinker

It takes nothing away from the Enlightenment thinkers to identify some critical ideas about the human condition and the nature of progress that we know and they didn't. Those ideas, I suggest, are entropy, evolution, and information. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 21, 2024

We have far too many ways to interpret past events for our own good. #NassimNicholasTaleb

We have far too many ways to interpret past events for our own good. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 21, 2024

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them. #MahatmaGandhi

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 20, 2024

You need a story to displace a story. #NassimNicholasTaleb

You need a story to displace a story. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 20, 2024

The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change. #PaulArden

The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change. #PaulArden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 20, 2024

Men, it appears, are more attracted to women whose looks are symmetrical and, in a biological sense, truly average. #MichaelPGhiglieri

Men, it appears, are more attracted to women whose looks are symmetrical and, in a biological sense, truly average. #MichaelPGhiglieri — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 20, 2024

To use a food metaphor, a person can feel physiological hunger, which would be like sex drive, without craving a specific dish, which would be more like sexual attraction #AngelaChen

To use a food metaphor, a person can feel physiological hunger, which would be like sex drive, without craving a specific dish, which would be more like sexual attraction #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 20, 2024

Anyone who engages in social media witnesses the attribution error on a regular basis. Not only is there a tendency to assume other people's motivations; we hastily infer their arguments and positions, based upon the pigeonhole into which we think they fit. #StevenNovella

Anyone who engages in social media witnesses the attribution error on a regular basis. Not only is there a tendency to assume other people's motivations; we hastily infer their arguments and positions, based upon the pigeonhole into which we think they fit. #StevenNovella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 20, 2024

The tyranny of merit arises from more than the rhetoric of rising. It consists in a cluster of attitudes and circumstances that, taken together, have made meritocracy toxic. #MichaelSandel

The tyranny of merit arises from more than the rhetoric of rising. It consists in a cluster of attitudes and circumstances that, taken together, have made meritocracy toxic. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 19, 2024

Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. #YuvalNoahHarari

Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 19, 2024

To be virtuous, then, is to live as we were designed to live; it is to live, as Zeno put it, in accordance with nature. The Stoics would add that if we do this, we will have a good life. #WilliamBIrvine

To be virtuous, then, is to live as we were designed to live; it is to live, as Zeno put it, in accordance with nature. The Stoics would add that if we do this, we will have a good life. #WilliamBIrvine — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 19, 2024

Living in and being responsible to the present vs retreating into fantasy. Self-confrontation vs self-avoidance. Willingness to see and correct mistakes vs perseverance in error. Reason vs irrationalism. #NathanielBranden

Living in and being responsible to the present vs retreating into fantasy. Self-confrontation vs self-avoidance. Willingness to see and correct mistakes vs perseverance in error. Reason vs irrationalism. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 19, 2024

Do you need a therapist, or do you need a union? #JennyOdell

Do you need a therapist, or do you need a union? #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 19, 2024

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. #Pythagoras

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. #Pythagoras — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 18, 2024

Lost time is never found again. #BenjaminFranklin

Lost time is never found again. #BenjaminFranklin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 18, 2024

It's a search for the bigger meaning secretly lurking in everything we find nice #TheSchoolOfLife

It's a search for the bigger meaning secretly lurking in everything we find nice #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 18, 2024

After centuries of terrible bloodshed, French, Germans, Italians and Britons have finally built a mechanism that ensures continental harmony--only to have the British public throw a spanner into the miracle machine. #YuvalNoahHarari

After centuries of terrible bloodshed, French, Germans, Italians and Britons have finally built a mechanism that ensures continental harmony--only to have the British public throw a spanner into the miracle machine. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 18, 2024

If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person. #ThichNhatHanh

If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 18, 2024

We can develop how often, and how loudly, the adult inside delivers their verdicts. What's more, encouraging this adult voice requires no particular technical skill or arcane practice. #TheSchoolOfLife

We can develop how often, and how loudly, the adult inside delivers their verdicts. What's more, encouraging this adult voice requires no particular technical skill or arcane practice. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 18, 2024

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfeted but life-enhancing thoughts. #AlaindeBotton

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfeted but life-enhancing thoughts. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 17, 2024

It never occurs to those Bad Samaritans that the [free trade] policies they recommend are fundamentally at odds with what history teaches us to be the best development policies. #HaJoonChang

It never occurs to those Bad Samaritans that the [free trade] policies they recommend are fundamentally at odds with what history teaches us to be the best development policies. #HaJoonChang — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 17, 2024

Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole. #JeanJacquesRousseau

Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 17, 2024

Interpreting a campus lecture as violence is a choice, and it is a choice that increases your pain with respect to the lecture while reducing your options for how to respond. #JonathanHaidt

Interpreting a campus lecture as violence is a choice, and it is a choice that increases your pain with respect to the lecture while reducing your options for how to respond. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 17, 2024

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial #Thoreau

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial #Thoreau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 17, 2024

Drop the Nietzsche. His ideas may seem edgy, authentic, baaad, while humanism seems sappy, unhip, uncool. But what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding? #StevenPinker

Drop the Nietzsche. His ideas may seem edgy, authentic, baaad, while humanism seems sappy, unhip, uncool. But what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding? #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 16, 2024

Both [Buddha and Stoics] doctrines are based on an empirical claim, a happiness hypothesis that asserts that striving to obtain goods and goals in the external world cannot bring you more than momentary happiness. You must work on your internal world. #JonathanHaidt

Both [Buddha and Stoics] doctrines are based on an empirical claim, a happiness hypothesis that asserts that striving to obtain goods and goals in the external world cannot bring you more than momentary happiness. You must work on your internal world. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 16, 2024

You can't hang an ETF on your wall, or drink it, or drive it! Always look to the future and take a few chances by investing in futuristic companies or new asset classes. #JoshuaBrown

You can't hang an ETF on your wall, or drink it, or drive it! Always look to the future and take a few chances by investing in futuristic companies or new asset classes. #JoshuaBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 16, 2024

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out... Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out... Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out... Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me. #MartinNiemoller

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out... Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out... Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out... Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me. #MartinNiemoller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 16, 2024

Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance #Thucydides

Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance #Thucydides — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 16, 2024

As the instinctual nature of the bird dictates the building of a nest, so the instinctual nature of the in-love experience pushes us to do outlandish and unnatural things for each other. #GaryChapman

As the instinctual nature of the bird dictates the building of a nest, so the instinctual nature of the in-love experience pushes us to do outlandish and unnatural things for each other. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 15, 2024

Everyone needs idle time, or slack time. If no one has slack time, WIP gets stuck in the system. Or more specifically, stuck in queues, just waiting. #GeneKim

Everyone needs idle time, or slack time. If no one has slack time, WIP gets stuck in the system. Or more specifically, stuck in queues, just waiting. #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 15, 2024

Semi-consciously, kindness also seems incompatible with sexual desirability. #TheSchoolOfLife

Semi-consciously, kindness also seems incompatible with sexual desirability. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 15, 2024

We live in sexually interesting times, meaning a culture which manages to be simultaneously hypersexualized and to retain its Puritan underpinnings, in precisely equal proportions. #LauraKipnis

We live in sexually interesting times, meaning a culture which manages to be simultaneously hypersexualized and to retain its Puritan underpinnings, in precisely equal proportions. #LauraKipnis — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 15, 2024

...even today, when people argue for diversity and, thus, for racial preferences, black students are effectively Sambo-ized. They are assigned an inferiority so intractable that nothing overcomes it, not even good schools and high family incomes. #ShelbySteele

...even today, when people argue for diversity and, thus, for racial preferences, black students are effectively Sambo-ized. They are assigned an inferiority so intractable that nothing overcomes it, not even good schools and high family incomes. #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 15, 2024

...the right of conquest being in fact no right at all, it could not serve as a foundation for any other right, the conqueror and the conquered ever remaining with respect to each other in a state of war, unless the conquered ... freely choose their conqueror #JeanJacquesRousseau

...the right of conquest being in fact no right at all, it could not serve as a foundation for any other right, the conqueror and the conquered ever remaining with respect to each other in a state of war, unless the conquered ... freely choose their conqueror #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 14, 2024

International wars became rare only after 1945, largely thanks to the new threat of nuclear annihilation. #YuvalNoahHarari

International wars became rare only after 1945, largely thanks to the new threat of nuclear annihilation. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 14, 2024

If there is one thing developmental psychologists have learned over the years, it is that parents don't have to be brilliant psychologists to succeed. They don't have to be supremely gifted teachers. #DavidBrooks

If there is one thing developmental psychologists have learned over the years, it is that parents don't have to be brilliant psychologists to succeed. They don't have to be supremely gifted teachers. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 14, 2024

But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years of research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated. #JonathanHaidt

But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years of research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 14, 2024

Exodus is not just describing a ragtag group of people wandering around in the desert. It is describing how resilient people are made. It's an eternal story of spiritual and moral formation that happens again and again and again. #DavidBrooks

Exodus is not just describing a ragtag group of people wandering around in the desert. It is describing how resilient people are made. It's an eternal story of spiritual and moral formation that happens again and again and again. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 14, 2024

Most eras before our own knew that solitude didn't have to be a sign of wretchedness or deficiency. There were ways of being on one's own that could be filled with honour and an impression of communion with what is noble and sincere #TheSchoolOfLife

Most eras before our own knew that solitude didn't have to be a sign of wretchedness or deficiency. There were ways of being on one's own that could be filled with honour and an impression of communion with what is noble and sincere #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 14, 2024

...the attempt to remove an unpleasant thought can guarantee it a place on your frequent-play list of mental ruminations. #JonathanHaidt

...the attempt to remove an unpleasant thought can guarantee it a place on your frequent-play list of mental ruminations. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 13, 2024

The narrower and rarer the identity you choose for yourself, the more everything will seem to threaten you. For that reason, define yourself in the simplest and most ordinary ways possible. #MarkManson

The narrower and rarer the identity you choose for yourself, the more everything will seem to threaten you. For that reason, define yourself in the simplest and most ordinary ways possible. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 13, 2024

[Flow] is the state of total immersion in a task that is challenging yet closely matched to one's abilities. It is what people sometimes call being in the zone. Csikszentmihalyi called it flow because it often feels like effortless #JonathanHaidt

[Flow] is the state of total immersion in a task that is challenging yet closely matched to one's abilities. It is what people sometimes call being in the zone. Csikszentmihalyi called it flow because it often feels like effortless #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 13, 2024

In fact, happiness is one of the most highly heritable aspects of personality. Twin studies generally show that from 50 percent to 80 percent of all the variance among people in their average levels of happiness can be explained by differences in their genes... #JonathanHaidt

In fact, happiness is one of the most highly heritable aspects of personality. Twin studies generally show that from 50 percent to 80 percent of all the variance among people in their average levels of happiness can be explained by differences in their genes... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 13, 2024

This experiment of making mortality a medical experience is just decades old. It is young. And the evidence is it is failing. #AtulGawande

This experiment of making mortality a medical experience is just decades old. It is young. And the evidence is it is failing. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 13, 2024

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. #MilanKundera

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. #MilanKundera — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 13, 2024

[It is public opinion social media exploits] and public opinion that has no patience for ambiguity, context, or breaks with tradition. Public opinion is not looking to change or to be challenged; it is what wants a band to keep making songs exactly like the [past] hit #JennyOdell

[It is public opinion social media exploits] and public opinion that has no patience for ambiguity, context, or breaks with tradition. Public opinion is not looking to change or to be challenged; it is what wants a band to keep making songs exactly like the [past] hit #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 12, 2024

I am who I am, and I'm focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple. #TimCook

I am who I am, and I'm focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple. #TimCook — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 12, 2024

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. #CocoChanel

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. #CocoChanel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 12, 2024

Reason is... the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. #DavidHumel

Reason is... the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. #DavidHumel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 12, 2024

Writers who from the first write about heavy topics may eventually [...] find themselves faltering under the very weight of that material [...] they may, to some degree or other, find themselves backed into a corner when forced to think of what to write next. #HarukiMurakami

Writers who from the first write about heavy topics may eventually [...] find themselves faltering under the very weight of that material [...] they may, to some degree or other, find themselves backed into a corner when forced to think of what to write next. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 12, 2024

Observe the actual flow of body and mind. You will see thoughts, emotions and desires appear and disappear without much reason and without any command from you, just as different winds blow from this or that direction and mess up your hair. #YuvalNoahHarari

Observe the actual flow of body and mind. You will see thoughts, emotions and desires appear and disappear without much reason and without any command from you, just as different winds blow from this or that direction and mess up your hair. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 12, 2024

What monotheism undoubtedly did was to make many people far more intolerant than before, thereby contributing to the spread of religious persecutions and holy wars. #YuvalNoahHarari

What monotheism undoubtedly did was to make many people far more intolerant than before, thereby contributing to the spread of religious persecutions and holy wars. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 11, 2024