Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. #AlaindeBotton
Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 14, 2025
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The better we understand history, the faster history alters its course, and the faster our knowledge becomes outdated. #YuvalNoahHarari
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Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. #MargaretBonnano
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One of the consequenses of surviving schizophrenia for fifty years is that sooner or later, the cure becomes as damaging as the disease #RobertKolker
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In nature there is only ever one reason you cede the high ground--you are acknowledging defeat [...] But under the rules of politeness, you let the other person off not because you are a weakling, a coward or a failure, but because you value calm over chaos. #TheSchoolOfLife
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In nature there is only ever one reason you cede the high ground--you are acknowledging defeat [...] But under the rules of politeness, you let the other person off not because you are a weakling, a coward or a failure, but because you value calm over chaos. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 13, 2025
At every single stage--from its biased arrival, to its biased encoding, to organising it around false logic, to misremembering and then misrepresenting it to others, the mind continually acts to distort the information flow in favour of [a goal of appearing better] #RobertTrivers
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At every single stage--from its biased arrival, to its biased encoding, to organising it around false logic, to misremembering and then misrepresenting it to others, the mind continually acts to distort the information flow in favour of [a goal of appearing better] #RobertTrivers — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 13, 2025
One has to feel very small in order to belittle. #AlaindeBotton
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But if we are convinced by this idea that without a future for humanity we would lose interest in a wide range of our activities and confidence in what we value (much like in the immortality case), then we arrive at a startling conclusion. #DerrenBrown
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But if we are convinced by this idea that without a future for humanity we would lose interest in a wide range of our activities and confidence in what we value (much like in the immortality case), then we arrive at a startling conclusion. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 12, 2025
Nowadays, however, economic class is barely mentioned unless combined intersectionally with some other form of marginalized identity. It is therefore no surprise that many working-class and poor people often feel profoundly alienated from today's left #HelenPluckrose
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Nowadays, however, economic class is barely mentioned unless combined intersectionally with some other form of marginalized identity. It is therefore no surprise that many working-class and poor people often feel profoundly alienated from today's left #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 12, 2025
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion. #NathanielBranden
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I think Upton Sinclair once wrote that a man has difficulty understanding something if his salary depends on his not understanding. #PatrickRaddenKeefe
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We don't ultimately grow kind by thinking about manners. We grow kind by thinking about self-doubt and self-hatred. #TheSchoolOfLife
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Extroverts are better than introverts at handling information overload. Introverts' reflectiveness uses up a lot of cognitive capacity, according to Joseph Newman. #SusanCain
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There is no real freedom without economic justice. #BernieSanders
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And here's the most basic of all ideological questions: Preserve the present order, or change it? #JonathanHaidt
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[Self-integrated people] are not blown off course by storms. They don't crumble in adversity. Their minds are consistent and their hearts are dependable. Their virtues are not the blooming virtues you see in smart college students; they are the ripening virtues... #DavidBrooks
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[Self-integrated people] are not blown off course by storms. They don't crumble in adversity. Their minds are consistent and their hearts are dependable. Their virtues are not the blooming virtues you see in smart college students; they are the ripening virtues... #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 10, 2025
...we have seen a broad shift from a culture of humility to the culture of what you might call the Big Me, from a culture that encouraged people to think humbly of themselves to a culture that encouraged people to see themselves as the center of the universe. #DavidBrooks
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...we have seen a broad shift from a culture of humility to the culture of what you might call the Big Me, from a culture that encouraged people to think humbly of themselves to a culture that encouraged people to see themselves as the center of the universe. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 10, 2025
The left and right ends of the political spectrum, incensed by economic inequality for their different reasons, curled around to meet each other, and their shared cynicism about the modern economy helped elect the most radical American president in recent times. #StevenPinker
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The left and right ends of the political spectrum, incensed by economic inequality for their different reasons, curled around to meet each other, and their shared cynicism about the modern economy helped elect the most radical American president in recent times. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 10, 2025
The tribal differences that erupt into public controversy typically concern sex (e.g., gay marriage, gays in the military, the sex lives of public officials) and death at the margins of life (e.g., abortion, physician-assisted suicide, the use of embryonic stem cells #JoshuaGre…
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The tribal differences that erupt into public controversy typically concern sex (e.g., gay marriage, gays in the military, the sex lives of public officials) and death at the margins of life (e.g., abortion, physician-assisted suicide, the use of embryonic stem cells #JoshuaGre… — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 10, 2025
...we show interest by widening our eyes and looking toward the thing we're interested in, the better to take in visual information. Unlike words, which vary from language to language, most of these [body language] signals are shared across cultures. #KevinSimler
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...we show interest by widening our eyes and looking toward the thing we're interested in, the better to take in visual information. Unlike words, which vary from language to language, most of these [body language] signals are shared across cultures. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 9, 2025
What we dislike in others is often a weakness in our own lives. #GaryChapman
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Be conscious of the cost of context switching. It's very real, and you should try to minimize it. #JeffSutherland
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...identifying keystone habits is tricky. To find them, you have to know where to look. Detecting keystone habits means searching out certain characteristics. #CharlesDuhigg
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[Distractions] can accumulate and keep us from living the lives we want to live, or, even worse, undermine our capacities for reflection and self-regulation... there are deep ethical implications lurking here for freedom, wellbeing, and even the integrity of the self. #JamesWil…
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[Distractions] can accumulate and keep us from living the lives we want to live, or, even worse, undermine our capacities for reflection and self-regulation... there are deep ethical implications lurking here for freedom, wellbeing, and even the integrity of the self. #JamesWil… — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 9, 2025
The more writers we read, the better our understanding of our own mind stands to be. #TheSchoolOfLife
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[Associate virtue with] an exploration of the volumes daily transcribed within ourselves by our perceptual mechanisms. #TheSchoolOfLife
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If you were a woman, you had far less time to find a man. True love? This guy has a job and a decent mustache. Lock it down, girl. #AzizAnsari
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Snaking through the midst of the banal everyday is a deep weirdness, a world of flowerings, decompositions, and seepages, of a million crawling things, of spores and lacy fungal filaments, of minerals reacting and things being eaten awayll just on the other side... #JennyOdell
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Snaking through the midst of the banal everyday is a deep weirdness, a world of flowerings, decompositions, and seepages, of a million crawling things, of spores and lacy fungal filaments, of minerals reacting and things being eaten awayll just on the other side... #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 8, 2025
What drives us to fury are affronts to our expectations #TheSchoolOfLife
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Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving. #GaryChapman
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Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 7, 2025
Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you're willing to stick with them for years. #JamesClear
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When we did the large focus group where we split the room by generation--kids on the left, parents on the right--a strange thing happened [...] the parents' side of the room was full of chatter [...] On the kids' side, everyone was buried in their phones #AzizAnsari
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When we did the large focus group where we split the room by generation--kids on the left, parents on the right--a strange thing happened [...] the parents' side of the room was full of chatter [...] On the kids' side, everyone was buried in their phones #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 7, 2025
Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals. #JamesClear
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[Self-care] is poised to be wrenched away from activists and turned into an excuse to buy an expensive bath oil. #GabrielleMoss
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You don't need a Bill of Rights to protect the rights of the majority in a democracy, because the vote already does that. #JonathanHaidt
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In the global digital network, labor is transformed into small parcels of nervous energy picked up by the recombining machine... The workers are deprived of every individual consistency. Strictly speaking, the workers no longer exist. Their time exists... #FrancoBerardi
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In the global digital network, labor is transformed into small parcels of nervous energy picked up by the recombining machine... The workers are deprived of every individual consistency. Strictly speaking, the workers no longer exist. Their time exists... #FrancoBerardi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2025
[A good life needs to] know how to go along with the rules sufficiently well so as not to get mired in needless fights with authority; and simultaneously never to believe too blindly or too passively in the long-term validity of everything we're asked to study. #TheSchoolOfLife
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[A good life needs to] know how to go along with the rules sufficiently well so as not to get mired in needless fights with authority; and simultaneously never to believe too blindly or too passively in the long-term validity of everything we're asked to study. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2025
The point is, our minds aren't as private as we like to imagine. Other people have partial visibility into what we're thinking. Faced with the translucency of our own minds, then, self-deception is often the most robust way to mislead others. #RobinHanson
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The point is, our minds aren't as private as we like to imagine. Other people have partial visibility into what we're thinking. Faced with the translucency of our own minds, then, self-deception is often the most robust way to mislead others. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 5, 2025
[The U.S.] will progressively reduce its forces and military installations on Taiwan as the tension in the area diminishes. #HenryKissinger
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. #EricHoffer
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The cognitive sciences have replaced literature as the way many people attempt to understand their own minds. #DavidBrooks
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The paradoxes embedded into any situation do not allow for a clean and ultimate resolution. You expand liberty at the cost of encouraging license. You crack down on license at the cost of limiting liberty. There is no escaping this sort of trade-off. #DavidBrooks
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The paradoxes embedded into any situation do not allow for a clean and ultimate resolution. You expand liberty at the cost of encouraging license. You crack down on license at the cost of limiting liberty. There is no escaping this sort of trade-off. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 4, 2025
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? #MarcusAurelius
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. #Plato
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If we shift as we age toward appreciating everyday pleasures and relationships rather than toward achieving, having and getting, and if we find this more fulfilling, then why do we take so long to do it? Why do we wait until we're old? [...] lessons are hard to learn #AtulGawande
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If we shift as we age toward appreciating everyday pleasures and relationships rather than toward achieving, having and getting, and if we find this more fulfilling, then why do we take so long to do it? Why do we wait until we're old? [...] lessons are hard to learn #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 4, 2025
To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full... #JeanJacquesRousseau
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To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full... #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2025
We should afford more regularly to exchange self-hatred for lawful and honourable expressions of annoyance. #TheSchoolOfLife
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[Hume and Kant] helped to expose [racism's] fundamental flaws. For instance, Hume argued that morality is based on humans' natural attunement to one another's feelings and a discomfort at sensing others' discomfort that can be elevated into more impartial justice. #DouglasMurray
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[Hume and Kant] helped to expose [racism's] fundamental flaws. For instance, Hume argued that morality is based on humans' natural attunement to one another's feelings and a discomfort at sensing others' discomfort that can be elevated into more impartial justice. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2025
...we rely for our self-esteem and sense of comfort on the love of people we cannot control and whose needs and hopes will never align seamlessly with our own. #AlaindeBotton
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Much of what Freud believed to be biological, instinctual, and changeless has been shown by modern research to be a result of specific cultural causes. #BettyFriedan
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...the rich countries liberalized their trade only when their producers were ready, and usually only gradually even then. In other words, historically, trade liberalization has been the outcome rather than the cause of economic development. #HaJoonChang
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...the rich countries liberalized their trade only when their producers were ready, and usually only gradually even then. In other words, historically, trade liberalization has been the outcome rather than the cause of economic development. #HaJoonChang — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 3, 2025
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world. #NicholasDKristof
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In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 2, 2025
Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured. #SusanCain
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It's strange, isn't it?' the woman said in a pensive voice. 'Everything is blowing up around us, but there are still those who care about a broken lock, and others who are dutiful enough to try to fix it... But maybe that's the way it should be. #HarukiMurakami
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It's strange, isn't it?' the woman said in a pensive voice. 'Everything is blowing up around us, but there are still those who care about a broken lock, and others who are dutiful enough to try to fix it... But maybe that's the way it should be. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 2, 2025
I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity. #NassimNicholasTaleb
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. #Plato
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Yet a society that properly loved children would know that the greatest factor contributing to children's welfare is the removal of the idea that everyone should automatically have them. A good society would give equal prestige to child-free and childful states. #TheSchoolOfLife
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Yet a society that properly loved children would know that the greatest factor contributing to children's welfare is the removal of the idea that everyone should automatically have them. A good society would give equal prestige to child-free and childful states. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 1, 2025
Rightly or wrongly, people might reach the same conclusions about Big Data algorithms: they have lots of hitches, but we have no better alternative. #YuvalNoahHarari
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Community is attenuated, connections are dissolved, and loneliness spreads. This situation makes it difficult to be good--to fulfill the deep human desires for love and connection. It's hard on people of all ages, but it's especially hard on young adults. #DavidBrooks
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Community is attenuated, connections are dissolved, and loneliness spreads. This situation makes it difficult to be good--to fulfill the deep human desires for love and connection. It's hard on people of all ages, but it's especially hard on young adults. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 30, 2025
When you can't win by being better, you can win by being different. #JamesClear
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If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions #JeanJacquesRousseau
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People in the valley have been broken open. They have been reminded that they are not just the parts of themselves that they put on display. #DavidBrooks
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Since, beginning with the same premise and examining the same body of anthropological evidence, she now arrives at a slightly different sexual role for women, one might seriously question the basis upon which she decides the roles a woman should play #BettyFriedan
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Since, beginning with the same premise and examining the same body of anthropological evidence, she now arrives at a slightly different sexual role for women, one might seriously question the basis upon which she decides the roles a woman should play #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 29, 2025
When central planning resulted in mass famine in rural China, millions starved to death while the youngsters in Europe waving communist red flags knew nothing about it. When in the past whole species or ecosystems were destroyed, no one realized or even cared. #HansRosling
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When central planning resulted in mass famine in rural China, millions starved to death while the youngsters in Europe waving communist red flags knew nothing about it. When in the past whole species or ecosystems were destroyed, no one realized or even cared. #HansRosling — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 29, 2025
Conspiracy theories and viral falsehoods are probably as old as language. #StevenPinker
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The Chinese can bring out a seven-month-old fetus, as was reported in the news in September 2012. A heavily pregnant woman in Shaanxi province, Feng Jianmei, was forced to undergo an abortion because she had not sought official permission for her pregnancy. #LeeKuanYew
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The Chinese can bring out a seven-month-old fetus, as was reported in the news in September 2012. A heavily pregnant woman in Shaanxi province, Feng Jianmei, was forced to undergo an abortion because she had not sought official permission for her pregnancy. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 28, 2025
We were not hit but we were injured. We failed to receive the love that makes people firm and whole; that allows them to feel authentic and deserving; that prevents them from being impressed by those who mistreat them; that stops [self-blaming] when they mess up. #TheSchoolOfLife
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We were not hit but we were injured. We failed to receive the love that makes people firm and whole; that allows them to feel authentic and deserving; that prevents them from being impressed by those who mistreat them; that stops [self-blaming] when they mess up. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 28, 2025
The moderate knows there is no ultimate resolution to these tensions. Great matters cannot be settled by taking into account just one principle or one viewpoint. #DavidBrooks
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Would-be rulers justified their authority on the basis of their ancestry. [Either] descent from the gods or from an earlier king or legendary hero, their legitimacy depended on the purity of their parents' bloodlines and the validity of their parents' marriages. #StephanieCoontz
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Would-be rulers justified their authority on the basis of their ancestry. [Either] descent from the gods or from an earlier king or legendary hero, their legitimacy depended on the purity of their parents' bloodlines and the validity of their parents' marriages. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 27, 2025
This is all the fault of evolution. For countless generations our biochemical system adapted to increasing our chances of survival and reproduction, not our happiness. #YuvalNoahHarari
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...we all believe in karma, the Hindu notion that people reap what they sow. The psychologist Mel Lerner has demonstrated that we are so motivated to believe that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get that we often blame the victim of a tragedy... #JonathanHaidt
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...we all believe in karma, the Hindu notion that people reap what they sow. The psychologist Mel Lerner has demonstrated that we are so motivated to believe that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get that we often blame the victim of a tragedy... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 27, 2025
When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you. #Aurelius
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When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you. #Aurelius — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 27, 2025
To reach the source, you have to swim against the current. Only trash swims downstream. #HarukiMurakami
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Don't confuse the urgent with the important. #PrestonNi
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Responsiveness and throughput: how quickly you can respond to things, and how much you can get done overall. #BrianChristian
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In Russia there is no reticence about expressing your negative criticism openly. For instance, if you are displeased with the service in a shop or restaurant you can tell the shop assistant or waiter exactly what you think of him, his relatives, his in-laws, his habits #ErinMeyer
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In Russia there is no reticence about expressing your negative criticism openly. For instance, if you are displeased with the service in a shop or restaurant you can tell the shop assistant or waiter exactly what you think of him, his relatives, his in-laws, his habits #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 26, 2025
Yes, it's important not to get eaten by tigers. But consider that every creature alive today is the final link in an unbroken chain of ancestors who managed to reproduce. [...] From the perspective of evolution, mating, not survival, is the name of the game. #KevinSimler
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Yes, it's important not to get eaten by tigers. But consider that every creature alive today is the final link in an unbroken chain of ancestors who managed to reproduce. [...] From the perspective of evolution, mating, not survival, is the name of the game. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 26, 2025
...we are bound to discover some things about ourselves that we don't like. But once we see they're there, we can decide what we want to do with them. Do we want to get rid of them completely, change them into other things, or use them in beneficial ways? #BenjaminHoff
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...we are bound to discover some things about ourselves that we don't like. But once we see they're there, we can decide what we want to do with them. Do we want to get rid of them completely, change them into other things, or use them in beneficial ways? #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 26, 2025
Anyone can work hard when they feel motivated. It's the ability to keep going when work isn't exciting that makes the difference. #JamesClear
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In fact, what are generosity, mercy, and humanity, if not pity applied to the weak, to the guilty, or to the human species in general. #JeanJacquesRousseau
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America confronted no power in need of being balanced, it could hardly have occupied itself with the challenges of equilibrium even if its leaders had been seized by the bizarre notion of replicating European conditions amidst a people who had turned their backs #HenryKissinger
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America confronted no power in need of being balanced, it could hardly have occupied itself with the challenges of equilibrium even if its leaders had been seized by the bizarre notion of replicating European conditions amidst a people who had turned their backs #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 25, 2025
Commitment is a promise made from love. A commitment is making a promise to something without expecting a return--out of sheer lovingness. #DavidBrooks
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Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don't really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. #JonathanHaidt
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Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don't really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 25, 2025
It is the particularity of the project which determines the limitation of the power, but it is also what gives the project its content and permits it to be set up. #SimonedeBeauvoir
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. #GeorgeSantayana
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Survival in that [foraging] era required superb mental abilities from everyone. When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new 'niches for imbeciles' were opened up. #YuvalNoahHarari
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Survival in that [foraging] era required superb mental abilities from everyone. When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new 'niches for imbeciles' were opened up. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 24, 2025
[75 percent of US child television programs] the hero either kills people or beats them up. This violence typically constitutes the climax of the show. Viewers, having been taught that bad guys deserve to be punished, take pleasure in watching this violence. #MarshallRosenberg
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[75 percent of US child television programs] the hero either kills people or beats them up. This violence typically constitutes the climax of the show. Viewers, having been taught that bad guys deserve to be punished, take pleasure in watching this violence. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 24, 2025
With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become. #JamesClear
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If we haven't travelled, if we don't yet know what we want, if we have a hard time staying with anyone for a while or remaining friendly with them when we part [...] then we might consider whether--in fairness to everyone involved--this is really for us. #TheSchoolOfLife
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If we haven't travelled, if we don't yet know what we want, if we have a hard time staying with anyone for a while or remaining friendly with them when we part [...] then we might consider whether--in fairness to everyone involved--this is really for us. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 23, 2025
But we are morally inarticulate. We're not more selfish or venal than people in other times, but we've lost the understanding of how character is built. #DavidBrooks
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Studies suggest that this process of experimentation--and failure--is critical in long-term habit change. Smokers often quit and then start smoking again as many as seven times before giving up cigarettes for good. [Those relapses are not failures but experiments.] #CharlesDuhigg
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Studies suggest that this process of experimentation--and failure--is critical in long-term habit change. Smokers often quit and then start smoking again as many as seven times before giving up cigarettes for good. [Those relapses are not failures but experiments.] #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 23, 2025
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking. #MarcusAurelius
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I talked to women who had spent years on the analyst's couch, working out their adjustment to the feminine role, their blocks to fulfillment as a wife and mother. [They] were sure they had no problem, even though they did have a strange feeling of desperation. #BettyFriedan
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I talked to women who had spent years on the analyst's couch, working out their adjustment to the feminine role, their blocks to fulfillment as a wife and mother. [They] were sure they had no problem, even though they did have a strange feeling of desperation. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 22, 2025
Fortune [says with chilling candour] Inconstancy is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle... Yes, rise up on my wheel if you like, but don't count it an injury when by the same token you begin to fall #TheSchoolOfLife
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Fortune [says with chilling candour] Inconstancy is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle... Yes, rise up on my wheel if you like, but don't count it an injury when by the same token you begin to fall #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 22, 2025
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality. #ThichNhatHanh
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Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay... [emphasis mine] These roots are easily forgotten by philosophers who study philosophy instead of being forced into philosophy by the pressure of nonphilosophical problems.
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Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay... [emphasis mine] These roots are easily forgotten by philosophers who study philosophy instead of being forced into philosophy by the pressure of nonphilosophical problems. — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 22, 2025
The moral is clear. If we seek others, we should stay at home; if we wish to alleviate loneliness, we should turn down invitations; if we want company, we would be better off communing with dead writers and poets than hunting for solace at large gatherings. #TheSchoolOfLife
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The moral is clear. If we seek others, we should stay at home; if we wish to alleviate loneliness, we should turn down invitations; if we want company, we would be better off communing with dead writers and poets than hunting for solace at large gatherings. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 21, 2025
...if enough people in a society are suffering from a form of exhaustion, might it not be that the society they are living in has become exhausted? #DouglasMurray
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We humans have an extraordinary ability to care about things beyond ourselves, to circle around those things with other people, and in the process to bind ourselves into teams that can pursue larger projects. That's what religion is all about. #JonathanHaidt
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We humans have an extraordinary ability to care about things beyond ourselves, to circle around those things with other people, and in the process to bind ourselves into teams that can pursue larger projects. That's what religion is all about. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 21, 2025
If we are outraged that somebody insulted our nation or our god, what makes the insult unbearable is the burning sensations in the pit of our stomach and the band of pain that grips our heart. Our nation feels nothing, but our body really hurts. #YuvalNoahHarari
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If we are outraged that somebody insulted our nation or our god, what makes the insult unbearable is the burning sensations in the pit of our stomach and the band of pain that grips our heart. Our nation feels nothing, but our body really hurts. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 21, 2025
The most urgent priority might be not to know, in order that other, more important, elements closer to home might gain the prominence they deserve. #TheSchoolOfLife
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The Russian saying If we pass a stranger on the street who is smiling, we know with certainty that that person is crazy... or else American. #ErinMeyer
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Politeness provides a way where you can back down with dignity. #TheSchoolOfLife
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When we hear a prediction about the future that contradicts our experience-based notion of how things work, our instinct is that the prediction must be naive. #TimUrban
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Every society is already characterized by patterned behavior; otherwise it would be pure conflict and no 'society' at all. #JordanPeterson
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...the human mind reacts to bad things more quickly, strongly, and persistently than to equivalent good things. We can't just will ourselves to see everything as good because our minds are wired to find and react to threats, violations, and setbacks. #JonathanHaidt
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...the human mind reacts to bad things more quickly, strongly, and persistently than to equivalent good things. We can't just will ourselves to see everything as good because our minds are wired to find and react to threats, violations, and setbacks. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 19, 2025
I like it when people give me attention! I like being interesting! And these are all things that our societal narrative attaches to sex, Selena says. For allos, sex is so natural an explanation for behavior that other reasons [can be hard to fathom] #AngelaChen
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I like it when people give me attention! I like being interesting! And these are all things that our societal narrative attaches to sex, Selena says. For allos, sex is so natural an explanation for behavior that other reasons [can be hard to fathom] #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 18, 2025
...find time and space each day to redress the balance... use it to remind ourselves that so much of our life has nothing to do with us... it is only with our thoughts and actions that we need to concern ourselves... our centre of gravity returns to its correct place #DerrenBrown
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...find time and space each day to redress the balance... use it to remind ourselves that so much of our life has nothing to do with us... it is only with our thoughts and actions that we need to concern ourselves... our centre of gravity returns to its correct place #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 18, 2025
For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them. #ThichNhatHanh
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The daytime-office you is a misleading picture of what you're like. This insomnia is a gift, and this lonely plastic hotel is its precious, unexpected, generous guardian. #TheSchoolOfLife
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Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. #GaryChapman
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The slave trade was not controlled by any state or government. It was a purely economic enterprise, organised and financed by the free market according to the laws of supply and demand. Private slave-trading companies sold shares [in] Amsterdam, London and Paris #YuvalNoahHarari
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The slave trade was not controlled by any state or government. It was a purely economic enterprise, organised and financed by the free market according to the laws of supply and demand. Private slave-trading companies sold shares [in] Amsterdam, London and Paris #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 17, 2025
...until recently we lacked an understanding of how all of these apparently disparate features of human psychology [e.g., empathy, familiar love, anger, social disgust, friendship, minimal decency, gratitude, etc.] fit together and why they exist. #JoshuaGreene
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...until recently we lacked an understanding of how all of these apparently disparate features of human psychology [e.g., empathy, familiar love, anger, social disgust, friendship, minimal decency, gratitude, etc.] fit together and why they exist. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 17, 2025
Baltasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom, a seventeenth-century guidebook by a Spanish Jesuit priest on how to retain one's integrity while navigating the halls of power. #DavidBrooks
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The technological society is a system of domination. #CWrightMills
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We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions. #BreneBrown
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We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in the world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of available power, but to use well the kind [granted]. #SusanCain
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We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in the world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of available power, but to use well the kind [granted]. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 16, 2025
Someone shouldn't be feted either because their sex acts are very kinky or because their number of partners is very low. It is cause for celebration whenever anyone is, to the best of their ability, making their own choices free from pressure #AngelaChen
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Someone shouldn't be feted either because their sex acts are very kinky or because their number of partners is very low. It is cause for celebration whenever anyone is, to the best of their ability, making their own choices free from pressure #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 16, 2025
[The good parent] knows that a child should be able to take [them] substantially for granted. The parents' reward for all their work won't be direct; it will arrive by noting, in many years' time, that their child has developed into a very good parent themselves. #TheSchoolOfLife
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[The good parent] knows that a child should be able to take [them] substantially for granted. The parents' reward for all their work won't be direct; it will arrive by noting, in many years' time, that their child has developed into a very good parent themselves. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 16, 2025
...the development of the self may have been crucial to the development of human ultrasociality #JonathanHaidt
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Stepfamilies were much more numerous in the past, the result of high death rates and frequent remarriages. #StephanieCoontz
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Philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know #MichaelSandel
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Nothing that a Christian, a Muslim, and a Hindu can experience--self-transcending love, ecstasy, bliss, inner light--constitutes evidence in support of their traditional beliefs, because their beliefs are logically incompatible with one another. #SamHarris
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Nothing that a Christian, a Muslim, and a Hindu can experience--self-transcending love, ecstasy, bliss, inner light--constitutes evidence in support of their traditional beliefs, because their beliefs are logically incompatible with one another. #SamHarris — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 15, 2025
Death reorganises our priorities; it changes our scale of assessment #TheSchoolOfLife
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A murder may with impunity be committed under his window; he has only to put his hands to his ears and argue a little with himself, to prevent nature, which is shocked within him, from identifying itself with the unfortunate sufferer. #JeanJacquesRousseau
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A murder may with impunity be committed under his window; he has only to put his hands to his ears and argue a little with himself, to prevent nature, which is shocked within him, from identifying itself with the unfortunate sufferer. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 15, 2025
After Darwin, human morality became a scientific mystery. Natural selection could explain how intelligent, upright, linguistic, not so hairy, bipedal primates could evolve, but where did our morals come from? Darwin himself was absorbed by this question. #JoshuaGreene
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After Darwin, human morality became a scientific mystery. Natural selection could explain how intelligent, upright, linguistic, not so hairy, bipedal primates could evolve, but where did our morals come from? Darwin himself was absorbed by this question. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 14, 2025
Marshall McLuhan was harsh but not wrong when he observed, Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity. #DavidBrooks
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Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger. #MarshallRosenberg
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Furthermore, what fundamentally distinguishes adulthood from childhood is that the adult has access to a great many more sources of hope than the child. #TheSchoolOfLife
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I hope you'll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion. #JonathanHaidt
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Sometimes, in this multifaceted world of ours, inconsistency can be more eloquent than consistency. #HarukiMurakami
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Human greatness and terribleness are not correlated with wealth or other conventional measures of success. #RayDalio
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The same person who finds it difficult to introduce himself to strangers might establish a persence online and then extend these relationships into the real world. #SusanCain
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To crush well is to realise that the lovely person we sketch in our heads is our creation: a creation that says more about us than about them. But what it says about us is important. The crush gives us access to our own ideals [our insight into who we really are] #TheSchoolOfLife
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To crush well is to realise that the lovely person we sketch in our heads is our creation: a creation that says more about us than about them. But what it says about us is important. The crush gives us access to our own ideals [our insight into who we really are] #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 12, 2025
Psychotherapists have developed a special term to capture what we inherit emotionally from the past: they call it our 'transference'. In their view, each of us is constantly at risk of 'transferring' patterns of behaviour and feeling from the past... #TheSchoolOfLife
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Psychotherapists have developed a special term to capture what we inherit emotionally from the past: they call it our 'transference'. In their view, each of us is constantly at risk of 'transferring' patterns of behaviour and feeling from the past... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 12, 2025
My answers may disturb the experts and women alike, for they imply social change. But there would be no sense [...] if I did not believe that women can affect society, as well as be affected by it; that, in the end, a woman, as a man, has the power to choose... #BettyFriedan
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My answers may disturb the experts and women alike, for they imply social change. But there would be no sense [...] if I did not believe that women can affect society, as well as be affected by it; that, in the end, a woman, as a man, has the power to choose... #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 12, 2025
I never react to events in the outside world; I always react to the sensations in my own body. #YuvalNoahHarari
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Outsized regard for oneself is not the outcome of boundless self-love, it is the diseased flower of a terrified, self-doubting mind. #TheSchoolOfLife
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Studies of former smokers found that identifying the cues and rewards they associate with cigarettes, and then choosing new routines that provide similar payoffs--a piece of Nicorette, a quick series of push-ups, or simply taking a few minutes to stretch and relax #CharlesDuhigg
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Studies of former smokers found that identifying the cues and rewards they associate with cigarettes, and then choosing new routines that provide similar payoffs--a piece of Nicorette, a quick series of push-ups, or simply taking a few minutes to stretch and relax #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 11, 2025
I can be loved by my family, my mate, and my friends, and yet not love myself. I can be admired by my associates and yet regard myself as worthless. #NathanielBranden
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Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end. #ImmanuelKant
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When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion. #SusanCain
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I think evolutionary psychology has put too much emphasis on male resources instead of male fitness in explaining women's sexual preferences. #GeoffreyMiller
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You have to separate yourself--for increasing periods of time--from the sources of your distraction. It's a mistake, [Dr Larry Rosen] said, to try to monotask by force of will--because it's too hard to resist that informational tap on the shoulder. #JohannHari
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You have to separate yourself--for increasing periods of time--from the sources of your distraction. It's a mistake, [Dr Larry Rosen] said, to try to monotask by force of will--because it's too hard to resist that informational tap on the shoulder. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 10, 2025
In the face of an obstacle which it is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. If I persist in beating my fist against a stone wall, my freedom exhausts itself in this useless gesture without succeeding in giving itself a content. #SimonedeBeauvoir
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In the face of an obstacle which it is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. If I persist in beating my fist against a stone wall, my freedom exhausts itself in this useless gesture without succeeding in giving itself a content. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 10, 2025
In most novels, as George Eliot observes, it is the dumb, blond heroine who outshines the virile brunette; and in The Mill on the Floss, Maggie tries in vain to reverse the roles; in the end she dies and it is blond Lucy who marries Stephen. #SimonedeBeauvoir
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In most novels, as George Eliot observes, it is the dumb, blond heroine who outshines the virile brunette; and in The Mill on the Floss, Maggie tries in vain to reverse the roles; in the end she dies and it is blond Lucy who marries Stephen. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 10, 2025
[Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shuttle between the human and the natural perspective [...] unhappiness can stem from only having one perspective... #AlaindeBotton
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[Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shuttle between the human and the natural perspective [...] unhappiness can stem from only having one perspective... #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 9, 2025
Depressed people are caught in a feedback loop in which distorted thoughts cause negative feelings, which then distort thinking further. #JonathanHaidt
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Even when [the depressed, listless mother] is long gone, we remain people who need to shine at every meeting [...] and who cannot listen to negative or dispiriting information of any kind. We are living the wide open present through the narrow drama of the past. #TheSchoolOfLife
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Even when [the depressed, listless mother] is long gone, we remain people who need to shine at every meeting [...] and who cannot listen to negative or dispiriting information of any kind. We are living the wide open present through the narrow drama of the past. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 9, 2025
There is a window of higher impressionability running from about age fourteen to twenty-four, with its peak right around age eighteen. #JonathanHaidt
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now, always. #AlbertSchweitzer
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When bad things happen to good people, we have a problem. We know consciously that life is unfair, but unconsciously we see the world through the lens of reciprocity. #JonathanHaidt
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You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general. #DanielKahneman
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