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First, they deny that there's something wrong with their life. Then they intensify their efforts to follow the old failing plan. Then they try to treat themselves with some new thrill: They have an affair, drink more, or start doing drugs. Only when all this fails... #DavidBrooks

First, they deny that there's something wrong with their life. Then they intensify their efforts to follow the old failing plan. Then they try to treat themselves with some new thrill: They have an affair, drink more, or start doing drugs. Only when all this fails... #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

If you are a sensitive sort, [...] you may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience. #SusanCain

If you are a sensitive sort, [...] you may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

What was [Ben Franklin's] secret? Virtue. Not the sort of uptight, pleasure-hating Puritanism that some people now associate with that word, but a broader kind of virtue that goes back to ancient Greece. #JonathanHaidt

What was [Ben Franklin's] secret? Virtue. Not the sort of uptight, pleasure-hating Puritanism that some people now associate with that word, but a broader kind of virtue that goes back to ancient Greece. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

We shouldn't do things so we can be happy. We should be happy so we can do things. #VishenLakhiani

We shouldn't do things so we can be happy. We should be happy so we can do things. #VishenLakhiani — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

...we are explanation-seeking animals who tend to think that everything has an identifiable cause and grab the most apparent one as the explanation. Yet there may not be a visible because; to the contrary, frequently there is nothing, no even a spectrum... #NassimNicholasTaleb

...we are explanation-seeking animals who tend to think that everything has an identifiable cause and grab the most apparent one as the explanation. Yet there may not be a visible because; to the contrary, frequently there is nothing, no even a spectrum... #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition... #AlaindeBotton

It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition... #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

By another definition, pride is building your happiness around your accomplishments, using your work as the measure of your worth. It is believing that you can arrive at fulfillment on your own, driven by your own individual efforts. Pride can come in bloated form. #DavidBrooks

By another definition, pride is building your happiness around your accomplishments, using your work as the measure of your worth. It is believing that you can arrive at fulfillment on your own, driven by your own individual efforts. Pride can come in bloated form. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2025

For many liberals, diversity has become an unquestioned good--like justice, freedom, and happiness, the more diversity, the better. My research on morality, however, spurred me to question it. #JonathanHaidt

For many liberals, diversity has become an unquestioned good--like justice, freedom, and happiness, the more diversity, the better. My research on morality, however, spurred me to question it. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2025

At fifteen, I had my mind bent on intellectual learning. At thirty, I was busy and practical. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I started to learn. At sixty, my ear was an obedient organ for the reception of truth. At seventy, I had learnt to follow the five virtues #TheScho…

At fifteen, I had my mind bent on intellectual learning. At thirty, I was busy and practical. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I started to learn. At sixty, my ear was an obedient organ for the reception of truth. At seventy, I had learnt to follow the five virtues #TheScho… — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2025

As the novelist Frederick Buechner put it, At what points do my talents and deep gladness meet the world's deep need? #DavidBrooks

As the novelist Frederick Buechner put it, At what points do my talents and deep gladness meet the world's deep need? #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2025

In the past, a guy would be thinking [...] I gotta have kids to work on my farm. I need four-year-old kids performing manual labor ASAP. And I need a woman who can make me clothes [...] A woman would think, I better find a dude who's capable on the farm #AzizAnsari

In the past, a guy would be thinking [...] I gotta have kids to work on my farm. I need four-year-old kids performing manual labor ASAP. And I need a woman who can make me clothes [...] A woman would think, I better find a dude who's capable on the farm #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2025

Napoleon, that exponent of martial glory, sniffed at England as a nation of shopkeepers. But at the time Britons earned 83 percent more than Frenchmen and enjoyed a third more calories, and we all know what happened at Waterloo. #StevenPinker

Napoleon, that exponent of martial glory, sniffed at England as a nation of shopkeepers. But at the time Britons earned 83 percent more than Frenchmen and enjoyed a third more calories, and we all know what happened at Waterloo. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2025

Men of science, it is widely felt, no longer try to picture reality as a whole or to present a true outline of human destiny. #CWrightMills

Men of science, it is widely felt, no longer try to picture reality as a whole or to present a true outline of human destiny. #CWrightMills — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2025

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness. #BenjaminFranklin

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness. #BenjaminFranklin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2025

If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression. #SimonedeBeauvoir

If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2025

Geoffrey Miller notes that most adults have a vocabulary of about sixty thousand words. To build that vocabulary, children must learn ten to twenty words a day between the ages of eighteen months and eighteen years. #DavidBrooks

Geoffrey Miller notes that most adults have a vocabulary of about sixty thousand words. To build that vocabulary, children must learn ten to twenty words a day between the ages of eighteen months and eighteen years. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2025

Autonomy makes each of us responsible for shaping his own life according to some coherent and distinctive sense of character, conviction, and interest. It allows us to lead our own lives rather than be led along them #RonaldDworkin

Autonomy makes each of us responsible for shaping his own life according to some coherent and distinctive sense of character, conviction, and interest. It allows us to lead our own lives rather than be led along them #RonaldDworkin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2025

When I've really been in love with someone, it's not because they looked a certain way or liked a certain TV show or a certain cuisine. It's more because when I watched a certain TV show or ate a certain cuisine with them, it was the most fun thing ever. #AzizAnsari

When I've really been in love with someone, it's not because they looked a certain way or liked a certain TV show or a certain cuisine. It's more because when I watched a certain TV show or ate a certain cuisine with them, it was the most fun thing ever. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2025

I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing... #DanielKahneman

I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing... #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2025

[Children] think that if they break rules, even accidentally, something bad will happen to them, even if nobody knows about their transgressions. #JonathanHaidt

[Children] think that if they break rules, even accidentally, something bad will happen to them, even if nobody knows about their transgressions. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2025

There are no worries about the future. No dwelling on past mistakes. #ThichNhatHanh

There are no worries about the future. No dwelling on past mistakes. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2025

When Catholic France, Italy, Austria and southern Germany developed rapidly, particularly after the Second World War, Christianity, rather than Protestantism, became the magic culture. #HaJoonChang

When Catholic France, Italy, Austria and southern Germany developed rapidly, particularly after the Second World War, Christianity, rather than Protestantism, became the magic culture. #HaJoonChang — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2025

Would we really want to be in a relationship where the other person reminds us every day of ourselves? Wouldn't it just be like having rich chocolate cake every day? Do we even especially like people who are very much like us? #DerrenBrown

Would we really want to be in a relationship where the other person reminds us every day of ourselves? Wouldn't it just be like having rich chocolate cake every day? Do we even especially like people who are very much like us? #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2025

A life of commitment means saying a thousand noes for the sake of a few precious yeses. #DavidBrooks

A life of commitment means saying a thousand noes for the sake of a few precious yeses. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2025

If Kindle is upgraded with face recognition and biometric sensors, it can know what made you laugh, what made you sad and what made you angry. Soon, books will read you while you are reading them. #YuvalNoahHarari

If Kindle is upgraded with face recognition and biometric sensors, it can know what made you laugh, what made you sad and what made you angry. Soon, books will read you while you are reading them. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2025

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest. #EricHoffer

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2025

It's hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy. #EstherPerel

It's hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy. #EstherPerel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2025

[W]e all incline in astonishingly personal ways to idiocy and spite #AlaindeBotton

[W]e all incline in astonishingly personal ways to idiocy and spite #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2025

Metarules (such as the rule that we have a tendency to not learn rules) we don't seem to be good at getting. We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion. #NassimNicholasTaleb

Metarules (such as the rule that we have a tendency to not learn rules) we don't seem to be good at getting. We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2025

In practice, deconstructive approaches to language therefore look very much like nitpicking at words in order to deliberately miss the point. #HelenPluckrose

In practice, deconstructive approaches to language therefore look very much like nitpicking at words in order to deliberately miss the point. #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2025

We've all wished at times that we couldn't feel emotion, because our emotions often drive us to do stupid shit we later regret. #MarkManson

We've all wished at times that we couldn't feel emotion, because our emotions often drive us to do stupid shit we later regret. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2025

Entitlement is a double-edged sword (or a double-jawed trap) for kids. On one edge it gives kids all that they don't need--indulgence, dullness, conceit, and laziness; and on the backswing, it takes from them everything they do need--motivation, independence... #RichardEyre

Entitlement is a double-edged sword (or a double-jawed trap) for kids. On one edge it gives kids all that they don't need--indulgence, dullness, conceit, and laziness; and on the backswing, it takes from them everything they do need--motivation, independence... #RichardEyre — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2025

[Politicians] fail to reflect that it is with liberty as with innocence and virtue; the value is known only to those who possess them, and the taste for them is forfeited when they are forfeited themselves. #JeanJacquesRousseau

[Politicians] fail to reflect that it is with liberty as with innocence and virtue; the value is known only to those who possess them, and the taste for them is forfeited when they are forfeited themselves. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2025

The problem that has no name--which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities--is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease. #BettyFriedan

The problem that has no name--which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities--is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2025

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. #PauloCoelho

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. #PauloCoelho — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2025

Writing about the circulation of information, Berardi makes a distinction that's especially helpful here, between what he calls connectivity and sensitivity. #JennyOdell

Writing about the circulation of information, Berardi makes a distinction that's especially helpful here, between what he calls connectivity and sensitivity. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 3, 2025

Historically, when human beings were pushed toward the precipice of disaster, it was not so much that some were intentionally pushing everybody to hell, but that they firmly believed that only they knew the road to heaven. #QianNing

Historically, when human beings were pushed toward the precipice of disaster, it was not so much that some were intentionally pushing everybody to hell, but that they firmly believed that only they knew the road to heaven. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 3, 2025

Empty and unlimited, she seeks from within her nothingness to attain All. #SimonedeBeauvoir

Empty and unlimited, she seeks from within her nothingness to attain All. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 3, 2025

Developing countries should not be forced to sell their future for small immediate gains. #HaJoonChang

Developing countries should not be forced to sell their future for small immediate gains. #HaJoonChang — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 3, 2025

Pain does not matter to a man. #ErnestHemingway

Pain does not matter to a man. #ErnestHemingway — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 3, 2025

You do not need to waste your time doing those things that are unnecessary and trifling. You do not have to be rich. You do not need to seek fame or power. What you need is freedom, solidity, peace and joy. You need the time and energy to be able to share these #ThichNhatHanh

You do not need to waste your time doing those things that are unnecessary and trifling. You do not have to be rich. You do not need to seek fame or power. What you need is freedom, solidity, peace and joy. You need the time and energy to be able to share these #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 3, 2025

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment. #ThichNhatHanh

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2025

In order to deny the outrage it is enough to deny the importance of the individual, even though it be at the cost of this collectivity: it is everything, he is only a zero. #SimonedeBeauvoir

In order to deny the outrage it is enough to deny the importance of the individual, even though it be at the cost of this collectivity: it is everything, he is only a zero. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2025

People should be beautiful every way, in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves. #AntonChekhov

People should be beautiful every way, in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves. #AntonChekhov — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2025

...sex is so natural an explanation for behavior that other reasons, such as wanting to dress creatively for its own sake and wanting to be seen just to be seen, can be hard to fathom. #AngelaChen

...sex is so natural an explanation for behavior that other reasons, such as wanting to dress creatively for its own sake and wanting to be seen just to be seen, can be hard to fathom. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2025

Being a good listener is one of the most important and enchanting life skills anyone can have. #AlaindeBotton

Being a good listener is one of the most important and enchanting life skills anyone can have. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2025

When I should have felt real pain, I stifled it. I didn't want to take it on, so I avoided facing up to it. Which is why my heart is so empty now. #HarukiMurakami

When I should have felt real pain, I stifled it. I didn't want to take it on, so I avoided facing up to it. Which is why my heart is so empty now. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2025

People get away with enslaving village girls for the same reason that people got away with enslaving blacks two hundred years ago: The victims are perceived as discounted humans. #NicholasDKristof

People get away with enslaving village girls for the same reason that people got away with enslaving blacks two hundred years ago: The victims are perceived as discounted humans. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 1, 2025

But why do speakers need to be relevant in conversation? If speakers deliver high-quality information, why should listeners care whether the information is related to the current topic? A plausible answer is that it's simply too easy to rattle off memorized trivia. #RobinHanson

But why do speakers need to be relevant in conversation? If speakers deliver high-quality information, why should listeners care whether the information is related to the current topic? A plausible answer is that it's simply too easy to rattle off memorized trivia. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 1, 2025

[I wonder] who in the world am I? And very seriously at that. If you took away my career as a plastic surgeon, & the happy environment I'm living in, & threw me out in the world, with no explanation, & with everything stripped away--what in the world would I be? #HarukiMurakami

[I wonder] who in the world am I? And very seriously at that. If you took away my career as a plastic surgeon, & the happy environment I'm living in, & threw me out in the world, with no explanation, & with everything stripped away--what in the world would I be? #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 1, 2025

Suffering arises from craving; the only way to be fully liberated from suffering is to be fully liberated from craving; and the only way to be liberated from craving is to train the mind to experience reality as it is. #YuvalNoahHarari

Suffering arises from craving; the only way to be fully liberated from suffering is to be fully liberated from craving; and the only way to be liberated from craving is to train the mind to experience reality as it is. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 1, 2025