English Quotes

You are the only variable in the situation you have control over. #RobertKolker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 22, 2024

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits, William James wrote in 1892. #CharlesDuhigg

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits, William James wrote in 1892. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 22, 2024

...earning and earning while forgetting that your whole point in earning money is to be able to spend it on the experiences that make your life what it is. #BillPerkins

...earning and earning while forgetting that your whole point in earning money is to be able to spend it on the experiences that make your life what it is. #BillPerkins — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 21, 2024

No matter how many options we seem to have on our screens, we should be careful not to lose track of the human beings behind them. We're better off spending quality time getting to know actual people than spending hours with our devices, seeing who else is out there. #AzizAnsari

No matter how many options we seem to have on our screens, we should be careful not to lose track of the human beings behind them. We're better off spending quality time getting to know actual people than spending hours with our devices, seeing who else is out there. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 21, 2024

What gave Homo sapiens an edge over all other animals and turned us into the masters of the planet was not our individual rationality but our unparalleled ability to think together in large groups. #YuvalNoahHarari

What gave Homo sapiens an edge over all other animals and turned us into the masters of the planet was not our individual rationality but our unparalleled ability to think together in large groups. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 21, 2024

It is not death that the very old tell me they fear. It is what happens short of death--losing their hearing, their memory, their best friends, their way of life. Philip Roth put it more bitterly in his novel Everyman: Old age is not a battle. Old age is a massacre. #AtulGawande

It is not death that the very old tell me they fear. It is what happens short of death--losing their hearing, their memory, their best friends, their way of life. Philip Roth put it more bitterly in his novel Everyman: Old age is not a battle. Old age is a massacre. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 21, 2024

There's joy in a life filled with interdependence with others, in a life filled with gratitude, reverence, and admiration. #DavidBrooks

There's joy in a life filled with interdependence with others, in a life filled with gratitude, reverence, and admiration. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 21, 2024

...perhaps we hear that a casual acquaintance thinks that [our spouse] are fascinating and elegant and--mixed in with a dose of jealous irritation--via this potential rival's eye, we see again all that we could conceivably lose. #TheSchoolOfLife

...perhaps we hear that a casual acquaintance thinks that [our spouse] are fascinating and elegant and--mixed in with a dose of jealous irritation--via this potential rival's eye, we see again all that we could conceivably lose. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 21, 2024

We may be foolish, but this doesn't single us out as particularly awful or unusual; it only confirms that we belong to the human race, a fact for which we deserve limitless sympathy and compassion. #TheSchoolOfLife

We may be foolish, but this doesn't single us out as particularly awful or unusual; it only confirms that we belong to the human race, a fact for which we deserve limitless sympathy and compassion. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 20, 2024

Success is the product of daily habits--not once-in-a-lifetime transformations. #JamesClear

Success is the product of daily habits--not once-in-a-lifetime transformations. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 20, 2024

The earth left to its own natural fertility and covered with immense woods, that no hatchet ever disfigured, offers at every step food and shelter to every species of animals. Men, dispersed among them, observe and imitate their industry... #JeanJacquesRousseau

The earth left to its own natural fertility and covered with immense woods, that no hatchet ever disfigured, offers at every step food and shelter to every species of animals. Men, dispersed among them, observe and imitate their industry... #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 20, 2024

Hard to focus on a conversation, especially when it is mathematical, when you have just personally earned several hundreds of times the annual salary of the researcher trying to tell you that you are wrong, by betting against his representation of the world #NassimNicholasTaleb

Hard to focus on a conversation, especially when it is mathematical, when you have just personally earned several hundreds of times the annual salary of the researcher trying to tell you that you are wrong, by betting against his representation of the world #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 20, 2024

Nowhere is the sky so blue, the grass so green, the sunshine so bright, the shade so welcome, as right here, now, today. #LuluMiller

Nowhere is the sky so blue, the grass so green, the sunshine so bright, the shade so welcome, as right here, now, today. #LuluMiller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 20, 2024

But the more often the choice fell upon old men, the more often elections had to be repeated, and the more they became a nuisance; intrigues set in, factions were formed, party feeling grew bitter, civil wars broke out [...] relapsing into their primitive anarchy. #Rousseau

But the more often the choice fell upon old men, the more often elections had to be repeated, and the more they became a nuisance; intrigues set in, factions were formed, party feeling grew bitter, civil wars broke out [...] relapsing into their primitive anarchy. #Rousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 20, 2024

I've just become aware that for thirty-six years, I was angry with your father for not meeting my needs, and now I realize that I never once clearly told him what I needed. #MarshallRosenberg

I've just become aware that for thirty-six years, I was angry with your father for not meeting my needs, and now I realize that I never once clearly told him what I needed. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 19, 2024

Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned. #HenryKissinger

Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 19, 2024

There is no reason that all human existences should be constructed on some one, or some small number of patterns. #JohnStuartMill

There is no reason that all human existences should be constructed on some one, or some small number of patterns. #JohnStuartMill — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 19, 2024

Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies. #SimonedeBeauvoir

Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 19, 2024

Freedom is not having more brands of cereal to choose from... That is variety. And in a vacuum, variety is meaningless. If you are trapped by insecurity, stymied by doubt, and hamstrung by intolerance, you can have all the variety in the world. But you are not free. #MarkManson

Freedom is not having more brands of cereal to choose from... That is variety. And in a vacuum, variety is meaningless. If you are trapped by insecurity, stymied by doubt, and hamstrung by intolerance, you can have all the variety in the world. But you are not free. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 19, 2024

[Google, Twitter and Facebook] now have the power not just to direct what most people in the world know, think and say, but have a business model which has accurately been described as relying on finding 'customers ready to pay to modify someone else's behaviour'. #DouglasMurray

[Google, Twitter and Facebook] now have the power not just to direct what most people in the world know, think and say, but have a business model which has accurately been described as relying on finding 'customers ready to pay to modify someone else's behaviour'. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 19, 2024

Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology. #HenryKissinger

Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 18, 2024

Yet they believe blindly in the stock market, and in the abilities of their pension plan manager. Why do they do so? Because they accept that this is what people should do with their savings, because experts tell them so. #NassimNicholasTaleb

Yet they believe blindly in the stock market, and in the abilities of their pension plan manager. Why do they do so? Because they accept that this is what people should do with their savings, because experts tell them so. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 18, 2024

...the institutions behave as though they were designed to achieve other, unacknowledged goals. #RobinHanson

...the institutions behave as though they were designed to achieve other, unacknowledged goals. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 18, 2024

We live in a culture that tells us we want and deserve the best, and now we have the technology to get #AzizAnsari

We live in a culture that tells us we want and deserve the best, and now we have the technology to get #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 18, 2024

Men have more freedom and power than women, yet they are not on average any happier (Women experience more depression, but also more intense joy). #JonathanHaidt

Men have more freedom and power than women, yet they are not on average any happier (Women experience more depression, but also more intense joy). #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 18, 2024

What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses #JeanJacquesRousseau

What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 17, 2024

It is true that many women are inhibited and perhaps do not yet know it. It is not true that inside everyone unwilling to try a threesome is a freak desperate to let her flag fly. Perhaps there is no flag. #AngelaChen

It is true that many women are inhibited and perhaps do not yet know it. It is not true that inside everyone unwilling to try a threesome is a freak desperate to let her flag fly. Perhaps there is no flag. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 17, 2024

[If money is the life purpose], then it is indeed possible that having a child will constitute a 'penalty' [but if the woman] chooses to pay that 'penalty' she might be fortunate enough to engage in the most important and fulfilling role that a human being can have #DouglasMurray

[If money is the life purpose], then it is indeed possible that having a child will constitute a 'penalty' [but if the woman] chooses to pay that 'penalty' she might be fortunate enough to engage in the most important and fulfilling role that a human being can have #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 17, 2024

Meaning and authority always go hand in hand. Whoever determines the meaning of our actions--whether they are good or evil, right or wrong, beautiful or ugly--also gains the authority to tell us what to think and how to behave. #YuvalNoahHarari

Meaning and authority always go hand in hand. Whoever determines the meaning of our actions--whether they are good or evil, right or wrong, beautiful or ugly--also gains the authority to tell us what to think and how to behave. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 17, 2024

If Singapore does not take in immigrants and foreign workers, Singapore country would tank. #LeeKuanYew

If Singapore does not take in immigrants and foreign workers, Singapore country would tank. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 17, 2024

Social man lives always outside himself; he knows how to live only in the opinion of others, it is, so to speak, from their judgement alone that he derives the sense of his own existence. #JeanJacquesRousseau

Social man lives always outside himself; he knows how to live only in the opinion of others, it is, so to speak, from their judgement alone that he derives the sense of his own existence. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 16, 2024

The controlled system allows people to think about long-term goals and thereby escape the tyranny of the here-and-now, the automatic triggering of temptation by the sight of tempting objects. #JonathanHaidt

The controlled system allows people to think about long-term goals and thereby escape the tyranny of the here-and-now, the automatic triggering of temptation by the sight of tempting objects. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 16, 2024

Perhaps the most courageous act of any parent's life will be that moment when, even though it breaks your heart, you stand aside and let your children take the natural consequences of their actions. #WilliamMartin

Perhaps the most courageous act of any parent's life will be that moment when, even though it breaks your heart, you stand aside and let your children take the natural consequences of their actions. #WilliamMartin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 16, 2024

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about? #HenryDavidThoreau

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about? #HenryDavidThoreau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 16, 2024

...we [the US] really do not have a health care system--like most modern industrialized countries do. What we have is a non-system that is enormously complex, bureaucratic, and fragmented. It leaves parents bewildered and caregivers frustrated. #BernieSanders

...we [the US] really do not have a health care system--like most modern industrialized countries do. What we have is a non-system that is enormously complex, bureaucratic, and fragmented. It leaves parents bewildered and caregivers frustrated. #BernieSanders — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 16, 2024

What we typically call love is only the start of love. #AlaindeBotton

What we typically call love is only the start of love. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 16, 2024

It wasn't God that mattered, the researchers figured out. It was belief itself that made a difference. #CharlesDuhigg

It wasn't God that mattered, the researchers figured out. It was belief itself that made a difference. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 15, 2024

[The modern West's fully practical, efficient, and profane world, stripping time and space of all sacredness,] is the world that religious fundamentalists find unbearable and are sometimes willing to use force against. #JonathanHaidt

[The modern West's fully practical, efficient, and profane world, stripping time and space of all sacredness,] is the world that religious fundamentalists find unbearable and are sometimes willing to use force against. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 15, 2024

The decline in spending over time was even more acute for retirees with more than 1 million in assets, according to separate research conducted by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, which analyzed data from more than half a million of its customers. #BillPerkins

The decline in spending over time was even more acute for retirees with more than 1 million in assets, according to separate research conducted by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, which analyzed data from more than half a million of its customers. #BillPerkins — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 15, 2024

I then completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television, which freed up a considerable amount of time (say one hour or more a day, enough time to read more than [100] additional books per year, which, after a couple of decades, starts mounting). #NassimNicholasTaleb

I then completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television, which freed up a considerable amount of time (say one hour or more a day, enough time to read more than [100] additional books per year, which, after a couple of decades, starts mounting). #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 15, 2024

What is more important for us, at an elemental level, than the control, the owning and operation, of our own physical selves? And yet it is so automatic, so familiar, we never give it a thought. #OliverSacks

What is more important for us, at an elemental level, than the control, the owning and operation, of our own physical selves? And yet it is so automatic, so familiar, we never give it a thought. #OliverSacks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 15, 2024

The sole field trip in my digital design class is simply a hike, and sometimes I have my students sit outside and do nothing for fifteen minutes. I realizing that these are my ways of insisting on doing something. #JennyOdell

The sole field trip in my digital design class is simply a hike, and sometimes I have my students sit outside and do nothing for fifteen minutes. I realizing that these are my ways of insisting on doing something. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 14, 2024

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? #SteveJobs

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? #SteveJobs — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 14, 2024

Thus discernment, artistic or otherwise, is a critical skill, and yet it can be something we take for granted, in part because we do it so effortlessly. #KevinSimler

Thus discernment, artistic or otherwise, is a critical skill, and yet it can be something we take for granted, in part because we do it so effortlessly. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 14, 2024

Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change. #BreneBrown

Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change. #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 14, 2024

As the applicant pool grows, the exact place to draw the line between looking and leaping settles to 37% of the pool, yielding the 37% Rule: look at the first 37% of the applicants,* choosing none, then be ready to leap for anyone better than all those you've seen so far.

As the applicant pool grows, the exact place to draw the line between looking and leaping settles to 37% of the pool, yielding the 37% Rule: look at the first 37% of the applicants,* choosing none, then be ready to leap for anyone better than all those you've seen so far. — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 14, 2024

Robert Merton, one of the first sociologists to analyze ambivalence, suggested that it may result from conflicting normative expectations within a role, but that such contradictions do not necessarily undermine this role. #EvaIllouz

Robert Merton, one of the first sociologists to analyze ambivalence, suggested that it may result from conflicting normative expectations within a role, but that such contradictions do not necessarily undermine this role. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 13, 2024

[By 'nationalism'] I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests. #GeorgeOrwell

[By 'nationalism'] I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests. #GeorgeOrwell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 13, 2024

We are creatures deeply marked by our expectations. We go around with mental pictures, lodged in our brains, of how things are supposed to go. #TheSchoolOfLife

We are creatures deeply marked by our expectations. We go around with mental pictures, lodged in our brains, of how things are supposed to go. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 13, 2024

Interrogating: When did this begin? Explaining: I would have called but ... Correcting: That's not how it happened. #MarshallRosenberg

Interrogating: When did this begin? Explaining: I would have called but ... Correcting: That's not how it happened. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 13, 2024

When community standards are enforced, there is constraint and cooperation. When everyone minds his own business and looks the other way, there is freedom and anomie. #JonathanHaidt

When community standards are enforced, there is constraint and cooperation. When everyone minds his own business and looks the other way, there is freedom and anomie. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 13, 2024

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. #CharlesDarwin

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. #CharlesDarwin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 13, 2024

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement #JamesClear

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 12, 2024

I have no physical symptoms, but psychologically there's this burden. I've got to get rid of it somehow. [...] It takes positive thinking to overcome fear, otherwise you'll carry around this victim mentality forever. #HarukiMurakami

I have no physical symptoms, but psychologically there's this burden. I've got to get rid of it somehow. [...] It takes positive thinking to overcome fear, otherwise you'll carry around this victim mentality forever. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 12, 2024

If you can engage your strengths, you'll find more gratification in work; if you find gratification, you'll shift into a more positive, approach-oriented mindset; and in such a mindset it will be easier for you to see the bigger picture #JonathanHaidt

If you can engage your strengths, you'll find more gratification in work; if you find gratification, you'll shift into a more positive, approach-oriented mindset; and in such a mindset it will be easier for you to see the bigger picture #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 12, 2024

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it. #DanielKahneman

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 12, 2024

Qualities we admire don't just belong to one specific, attractive life. They can be pursued in lesser, weaker but still real doses in countless other places, opening up the possibility of creating more manageable and more realistic versions of the lives we desire #TheSchoolOfLife

Qualities we admire don't just belong to one specific, attractive life. They can be pursued in lesser, weaker but still real doses in countless other places, opening up the possibility of creating more manageable and more realistic versions of the lives we desire #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 12, 2024

The fistula patient is the modern-day leper. #RuthKennedy

The fistula patient is the modern-day leper. #RuthKennedy — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 12, 2024

Whereas many people just accept the ready-made answers provided by the powers that be, spiritual seekers are not so easily satisfied. They are determined to follow the big question wherever it leads, and not just to places you know well or wish to visit. #YuvalNoahHarari

Whereas many people just accept the ready-made answers provided by the powers that be, spiritual seekers are not so easily satisfied. They are determined to follow the big question wherever it leads, and not just to places you know well or wish to visit. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 11, 2024

One day, China will regret its one-child policy. #LeeKuanYew

One day, China will regret its one-child policy. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 11, 2024

However many songs celebrate the act, it is no particular feat to love someone who is on their best behaviour, who looks beautiful and who moves with grace through the world. #TheSchoolOfLife

However many songs celebrate the act, it is no particular feat to love someone who is on their best behaviour, who looks beautiful and who moves with grace through the world. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 11, 2024

While reunification is their long-term desire and eventual goal, the South Koreans have decided that the economic costs of a Korea reunited overnight--say, by mutual agreement--will be so horrendous to the South that it is preferable to delay it for the time being. #LeeKuanYew

While reunification is their long-term desire and eventual goal, the South Koreans have decided that the economic costs of a Korea reunited overnight--say, by mutual agreement--will be so horrendous to the South that it is preferable to delay it for the time being. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 11, 2024

Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses. Stop wasting your money on conspicuous consumption. As a first step, work less, earn less, accumulate less, and consume more family time, vacations, and other enjoyable activities. #JonathanHaidt

Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses. Stop wasting your money on conspicuous consumption. As a first step, work less, earn less, accumulate less, and consume more family time, vacations, and other enjoyable activities. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 10, 2024

One of the greatest gifts we can offer people is to embody nonattachment and nonfear. This is a true teaching, more precious than money or material resources. Many of us are very afraid, and this fear distorts our lives and makes us unhappy. #ThichNhatHanh

One of the greatest gifts we can offer people is to embody nonattachment and nonfear. This is a true teaching, more precious than money or material resources. Many of us are very afraid, and this fear distorts our lives and makes us unhappy. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 10, 2024

We can recalibrate our expectations and demand a little less than we normally do; we're slower to anger and a bit more aware of unrealised potential. #AlaindeBotton

We can recalibrate our expectations and demand a little less than we normally do; we're slower to anger and a bit more aware of unrealised potential. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 10, 2024

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself. #AdamSmith

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 10, 2024

Disagreements over which people, deities, and texts are authoritative also lead to disagreements over matters of earthly fact. #JoshuaGreene

Disagreements over which people, deities, and texts are authoritative also lead to disagreements over matters of earthly fact. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 10, 2024

Augustine's feeling of fragmentation has its modern corollary in the way many contemporary young people are plague by a frantic fear of missing out. The world has provided them with a superabundance of neat things to do. #DavidBrooks

Augustine's feeling of fragmentation has its modern corollary in the way many contemporary young people are plague by a frantic fear of missing out. The world has provided them with a superabundance of neat things to do. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 9, 2024

...the VMPFC, in healthy people, integrates many pieces of information gained from experience (e.g., many samples from the different decks) and translates that information into an emotional signal that gives the decision maker good advice about what to do. #JoshuaGreene

...the VMPFC, in healthy people, integrates many pieces of information gained from experience (e.g., many samples from the different decks) and translates that information into an emotional signal that gives the decision maker good advice about what to do. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 9, 2024

...we have obscured the inescapable moral core of life with shallow language. It just means we think and talk about these choices less clearly, and thus become increasingly blind to the moral stakes of everyday life. #DavidBrooks

...we have obscured the inescapable moral core of life with shallow language. It just means we think and talk about these choices less clearly, and thus become increasingly blind to the moral stakes of everyday life. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 9, 2024

Conformity, in Mill's account, is the enemy of the best way to live. #MichaelSandel

Conformity, in Mill's account, is the enemy of the best way to live. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 9, 2024

The 40, 50 years of the [German Democratic Republic (GDR)] had imbued [Eastern Germans] with a sense that one could predestine certain successes. #LeeKuanYew

The 40, 50 years of the [German Democratic Republic (GDR)] had imbued [Eastern Germans] with a sense that one could predestine certain successes. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 9, 2024

The game of keeping one's clothes on tries to keep the interest of nakedness alive for a little longer by drawing attention to the privileges of permission. The game symbolises a poignant desire fully to savour the beauty of being, at last, allowed... #TheSchoolOfLife

The game of keeping one's clothes on tries to keep the interest of nakedness alive for a little longer by drawing attention to the privileges of permission. The game symbolises a poignant desire fully to savour the beauty of being, at last, allowed... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 9, 2024

This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles determine our successes. #MarkManson

This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles determine our successes. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 8, 2024

I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield [eg 1936 Olympics] #GeorgeOrwell

I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield [eg 1936 Olympics] #GeorgeOrwell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 8, 2024

To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man. #JeanJacquesRousseau

To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 8, 2024

As children, when someone asked our age, we might have said, 'I'm four', and added, with great solemnity, 'and a half'. We didn't want anyone to think we were only four. We had travelled so far in those few months #TheSchoolOfLife

As children, when someone asked our age, we might have said, 'I'm four', and added, with great solemnity, 'and a half'. We didn't want anyone to think we were only four. We had travelled so far in those few months #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 8, 2024

Happiness is not about the achievement of pleasure (which is joy or satisfaction), but about the lack of desire. It arrives when you have no urge to feel differently. #JamesClear

Happiness is not about the achievement of pleasure (which is joy or satisfaction), but about the lack of desire. It arrives when you have no urge to feel differently. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 8, 2024

Although we've made vast scientific progress since Kant's time, we haven't properly explored the potential of space as a source of wisdom, as opposed to a puzzle for astrophysicists to unpick. #TheSchoolOfLife

Although we've made vast scientific progress since Kant's time, we haven't properly explored the potential of space as a source of wisdom, as opposed to a puzzle for astrophysicists to unpick. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 8, 2024

By the mid-fifties, 60 per cent [of women attending college in the US] dropped out of college to marry, or because they were afraid too much education would be a marriage bar. #BettyFriedan

By the mid-fifties, 60 per cent [of women attending college in the US] dropped out of college to marry, or because they were afraid too much education would be a marriage bar. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 7, 2024

To capture the king--to have the emperor father a son with one's daughter--was the route to political power in the Japanese court. #StephanieCoontz

To capture the king--to have the emperor father a son with one's daughter--was the route to political power in the Japanese court. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 7, 2024

You might faint in your seat or be forced to run out of the room [amid fear]. So what? Refuse to be humiliated by the panic. You don't have to be competent all the time. Everyone is allowed some failures, and this just happens to be one of your well-earned ones. #TheSchoolOfLife

You might faint in your seat or be forced to run out of the room [amid fear]. So what? Refuse to be humiliated by the panic. You don't have to be competent all the time. Everyone is allowed some failures, and this just happens to be one of your well-earned ones. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 7, 2024

It is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost. #JeanJacquesRousseau

It is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 7, 2024

This large pool of single youth, along with the extension of the life span, has contributed to a stunning explosion of solitary living in Western societies. More than one-quarter of all U.S. households now contain only one person. #StephanieCoontz

This large pool of single youth, along with the extension of the life span, has contributed to a stunning explosion of solitary living in Western societies. More than one-quarter of all U.S. households now contain only one person. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 7, 2024

For one thing, anthropologists have discovered that hunter-gatherers led a fairly cushy life, with work weeks averaging twenty to thirty hours, tops. And why not? Nature provided everything they needed, leaving plenty of time to relax, hang out and hook up. #RutgerBregman

For one thing, anthropologists have discovered that hunter-gatherers led a fairly cushy life, with work weeks averaging twenty to thirty hours, tops. And why not? Nature provided everything they needed, leaving plenty of time to relax, hang out and hook up. #RutgerBregman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 7, 2024

Prejudice is not solely a product of individual bias but is often learned and reinforced through societal structures, cultural stereotypes, and linguistic cues. #GordonWAllport

Prejudice is not solely a product of individual bias but is often learned and reinforced through societal structures, cultural stereotypes, and linguistic cues. #GordonWAllport — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2024

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

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2024

Augustine suddenly came to realize that the solution to his problem would come only after a transformation more fundamental than any he had previously entertained, a renunciation of the very idea that he could be the source of his own solution. #DavidBrooks

Augustine suddenly came to realize that the solution to his problem would come only after a transformation more fundamental than any he had previously entertained, a renunciation of the very idea that he could be the source of his own solution. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2024

Nothing is neither a luxury nor a waste of time, but rather a necessary part of meaningful thought and speech. #JennyOdell

Nothing is neither a luxury nor a waste of time, but rather a necessary part of meaningful thought and speech. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2024

One always wants what is good for oneself, but one does not always see it. The people is never corrupted, but it is often fooled, and only then does it appear to want what is bad. #JeanJacquesRousseau

One always wants what is good for oneself, but one does not always see it. The people is never corrupted, but it is often fooled, and only then does it appear to want what is bad. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2024

This showed that loneliness isn't just some inevitable human sadness, like death. It's a product of the way we live now. #JohannHari

This showed that loneliness isn't just some inevitable human sadness, like death. It's a product of the way we live now. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2024

The unpleasant feeling of existential confusion and intellectual insecurity is the gateway drug to real intellectual growth--but when you haven't had the complete epiphany, it doesn't feel that way. #TimUrban

The unpleasant feeling of existential confusion and intellectual insecurity is the gateway drug to real intellectual growth--but when you haven't had the complete epiphany, it doesn't feel that way. #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 5, 2024

We know that we live in complex times that demand complex thoughts and conversationsnd those, in turn, demand the very time and space that is nowhere to be found. #JennyOdell

We know that we live in complex times that demand complex thoughts and conversationsnd those, in turn, demand the very time and space that is nowhere to be found. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 5, 2024

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. #MahatmaGandhi

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 5, 2024

A wealthy man in ancient Egypt would never have dreamed of solving a relationship crisis by taking his wife on holiday to Babylon. Instead, he might have built for her the sumptuous tomb she had always wanted. #YuvalNoahHarari

A wealthy man in ancient Egypt would never have dreamed of solving a relationship crisis by taking his wife on holiday to Babylon. Instead, he might have built for her the sumptuous tomb she had always wanted. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 5, 2024

Liberals score higher on measures of neophilia (also known as openness to experience), not just for new foods but also for new people, music, and ideas. #JonathanHaidt

Liberals score higher on measures of neophilia (also known as openness to experience), not just for new foods but also for new people, music, and ideas. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 5, 2024

One of the best investments you can make is paying for a solid prenup before getting married. #JoshuaBrown

One of the best investments you can make is paying for a solid prenup before getting married. #JoshuaBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 5, 2024

...not damaging enough to destroy your world, but bad enough to cause a long and scary global crisis. Short of an alien attack, it is the one thing that could make all humans in your world feel like they're on the same team against a common enemy. #TimUrban

...not damaging enough to destroy your world, but bad enough to cause a long and scary global crisis. Short of an alien attack, it is the one thing that could make all humans in your world feel like they're on the same team against a common enemy. #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 4, 2024

The road to hell is paved with intractable recursions, bad equilibria, and information cascades. #BrianChristian

The road to hell is paved with intractable recursions, bad equilibria, and information cascades. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 4, 2024

I think there are these power games men and women play. [...] If a woman expresses neediness, anxieties, desire for closeness, then forget it, the man will just not be there. It is as if the man needs to prove to himself he can win her over and over again. #EvaIllouz

I think there are these power games men and women play. [...] If a woman expresses neediness, anxieties, desire for closeness, then forget it, the man will just not be there. It is as if the man needs to prove to himself he can win her over and over again. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2024

[The barber] said that he had never been to China and had heard that China was developing very fast. But, he said, how could the Chinese government suppress personal freedom at will? He could not understand because he was not brought by China's collective education. #QianNing

[The barber] said that he had never been to China and had heard that China was developing very fast. But, he said, how could the Chinese government suppress personal freedom at will? He could not understand because he was not brought by China's collective education. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2024

What all of us have to do is to make sure we are using AI in a way that is for the benefit of humanity, not to the detriment of humanity. #TimCook

What all of us have to do is to make sure we are using AI in a way that is for the benefit of humanity, not to the detriment of humanity. #TimCook — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2024

I am a partisan, I am alive, I feel the pulse of the activity of the future city that those on my side are building is alive in their conscience. #AntonioGramsci

I am a partisan, I am alive, I feel the pulse of the activity of the future city that those on my side are building is alive in their conscience. #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2024

Once we relinquish our egos [...] consider humanity in a much more benign light. We might even, at an extreme (this might happen only very late at night once in a while), feel that we could love everyone, that no human could be outside the circle of our sympathy. #TheSchoolOfLife

- December 02, 2024

Once we relinquish our egos [...] consider humanity in a much more benign light. We might even, at an extreme (this might happen only very late at night once in a while), feel that we could love everyone, that no human could be outside the circle of our sympathy. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2024

The key to victory was creating the right routines. #CharlesDuhigg

- December 02, 2024

The key to victory was creating the right routines. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2024

Eliade's most compelling point, for me, is that sacredness is so irrepressible that it intrudes repeatedly into the modern profane world in the form of crypto-religious behavior. #JonathanHaidt

- December 02, 2024

Eliade's most compelling point, for me, is that 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) Dec 2, 2024

[Bay Area parks] Purisima Creek Redwoods Preserve, Joaquin Miller Park, Sam McDonald County Park, the Pearson-Arastradero Preserve, Henry W. Coe State Park, Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Jackson Demonstration State Forest, and the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park #JennyOdell

[Bay Area parks] Purisima Creek Redwoods Preserve, Joaquin Miller Park, Sam McDonald County Park, the Pearson-Arastradero Preserve, Henry W. Coe State Park, Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Jackson Demonstration State Forest, and the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 2, 2024

Beneath the kiss itself, it is its meaning that interests us--which is why the desire to kiss someone can be decisively reduced [...] by a declaration of that desire--a confession which may in itself be so erotic as to render the actual kiss superfluous. #AlaindeBotton

Beneath the kiss itself, it is its meaning that interests us--which is why the desire to kiss someone can be decisively reduced [...] by a declaration of that desire--a confession which may in itself be so erotic as to render the actual kiss superfluous. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 1, 2024

[Ike] was a far more complex and devious man than most people realized, and in the best sense of these words. Not shackled to a one-track mind, he always applied two, three, or four lines of reasoning to a single problem.... His mind was quick and facile. #RichardNixon

[Ike] was a far more complex and devious man than most people realized, and in the best sense of these words. Not shackled to a one-track mind, he always applied two, three, or four lines of reasoning to a single problem.... His mind was quick and facile. #RichardNixon — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 1, 2024

When a woman had to seek work because her husband lost his job, this threatened the modern ideas of masculinity and marriage that most men had come to embrace over the previous two decades. Unemployed men often lost their sense of identity and became demoralized. #StephanieCoontz