English Quotes

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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 1, 2025

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

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

The love you give each other can be your greatest service. Like ripples in a pond your love spreads out in circles and changes all it touches. The way you treat each other becomes the way you treat all things. #WilliamMartin

The love you give each other can be your greatest service. Like ripples in a pond your love spreads out in circles and changes all it touches. The way you treat each other becomes the way you treat all things. #WilliamMartin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 30, 2025

When you can't win by being better, you can win by being different. #JamesClear

When you can't win by being better, you can win by being different. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 30, 2025

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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 30, 2025

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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 30, 2025

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

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

We do not want to spend money on marketing side to generate leads. That's why the first million is very hard. It's more like to test water. If we know we can deliver first one million, we know we can deliver second, third? #EricYuan

We do not want to spend money on marketing side to generate leads. That's why the first million is very hard. It's more like to test water. If we know we can deliver first one million, we know we can deliver second, third? #EricYuan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 29, 2025

In an unequal society, those who land on top want to believe their success is morally justified. In a meritocratic society, this means the winners must believe they have earned their success through their own talent and hard work. #MichaelSandel

In an unequal society, those who land on top want to believe their success is morally justified. In a meritocratic society, this means the winners must believe they have earned their success through their own talent and hard work. #MichaelSandel — 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

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

Throughout human history, people have found that they are most aware of their depths when they are on retreats, during moments of separation and stillness, during moments of quiet communion. #DavidBrooks

Throughout human history, people have found that they are most aware of their depths when they are on retreats, during moments of separation and stillness, during moments of quiet communion. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 29, 2025

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. #DavidBrooks

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 29, 2025

Conspiracy theories and viral falsehoods are probably as old as language. #StevenPinker

Conspiracy theories and viral falsehoods are probably as old as language. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 28, 2025

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

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

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

A species equipped with vengeance and gratitude responses can support larger and more cooperative social groups because the payoff to cheaters is reduced by the costs they bear in making enemies. #JonathanHaidt

A species equipped with vengeance and gratitude responses can support larger and more cooperative social groups because the payoff to cheaters is reduced by the costs they bear in making enemies. #JonathanHaidt — 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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 28, 2025

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

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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 27, 2025

...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

...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

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

To reach the source, you have to swim against the current. Only trash swims downstream. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 27, 2025

Don't confuse the urgent with the important. #PrestonNi

Don't confuse the urgent with the important. #PrestonNi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 26, 2025

Responsiveness and throughput: how quickly you can respond to things, and how much you can get done overall. #BrianChristian

Responsiveness and throughput: how quickly you can respond to things, and how much you can get done overall. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 26, 2025

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

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

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

...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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 26, 2025

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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 25, 2025

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

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

Commitment is a promise made from love. A commitment is making a promise to something without expecting a return--out of sheer lovingness. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 25, 2025

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

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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 25, 2025

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. #GeorgeSantayana

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. #GeorgeSantayana — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 25, 2025

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

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

[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

Humans are the only creatures on Earth whose young are utterly helpless for years, and heavily dependent on adult care for more than a decade. Given the enormous burden that is the human child, women can't do it on their own. #JonathanHaidt

Humans are the only creatures on Earth whose young are utterly helpless for years, and heavily dependent on adult care for more than a decade. Given the enormous burden that is the human child, women can't do it on their own. #JonathanHaidt — 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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 24, 2025

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

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

We can never properly be secure, because so long as we are alive, we will be alert to danger and in some way at risk. The only people with full security are the dead; the only people who can be truly at peace are under the ground #TheSchoolOfLife

We can never properly be secure, because so long as we are alive, we will be alert to danger and in some way at risk. The only people with full security are the dead; the only people who can be truly at peace are under the ground #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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 23, 2025

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

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

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. #Thoreau

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. #Thoreau — 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

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking. #MarcusAurelius — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 22, 2025

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

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

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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 22, 2025

People began to talk of equality, but they did not seem to care about equal rights. They talked of anti-racism, but they sounded deeply racist. They spoke of justice, but they seemed to mean revenge. #DouglasMurray

People began to talk of equality, but they did not seem to care about equal rights. They talked of anti-racism, but they sounded deeply racist. They spoke of justice, but they seemed to mean revenge. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 22, 2025

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.

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

[Politeness] is a view that was advanced particularly by the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes in the 17th century. Hobbes was acutely conscious that our normal, unrestrained instincts are far from being wholly nice. #TheSchoolOfLife

[Politeness] is a view that was advanced particularly by the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes in the 17th century. Hobbes was acutely conscious that our normal, unrestrained instincts are far from being wholly nice. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 21, 2025

[Explaining asexuality] requires us to use the language of lack, claiming we are legitimate in spite of being deficient, while struggling to explain exactly what it is we don't get. #AngelaChen

[Explaining asexuality] requires us to use the language of lack, claiming we are legitimate in spite of being deficient, while struggling to explain exactly what it is we don't get. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 21, 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

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

...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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 21, 2025

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

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

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

...your are the prime driver of your life. The world is malleable enough to be shaped by you. To lead a better life you just have to work harder, or use more willpower, or make better decisions. #DavidBrooks

...your are the prime driver of your life. The world is malleable enough to be shaped by you. To lead a better life you just have to work harder, or use more willpower, or make better decisions. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 20, 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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 20, 2025

Just because there's an end doesn't mean existence has meaning. An end point is simply set up as a temporary marker, or perhaps as an indirect metaphor for the fleeting nature of existence. #HarukiMurakami

Just because there's an end doesn't mean existence has meaning. An end point is simply set up as a temporary marker, or perhaps as an indirect metaphor for the fleeting nature of existence. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 20, 2025

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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 20, 2025

Politeness provides a way where you can back down with dignity. #TheSchoolOfLife

Politeness provides a way where you can back down with dignity. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 20, 2025

Seligman proposed not so much a new psychological approach as a new positive attitude that moved basic and applied psychology away from stagnation and focused scholars on the unexploited market target of healthy, normal people. #EvaIllouz

Seligman proposed not so much a new psychological approach as a new positive attitude that moved basic and applied psychology away from stagnation and focused scholars on the unexploited market target of healthy, normal people. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 19, 2025

In prosperity, after a certain time, it falls back to that state; in adversity, after a certain time, it rises up to it. If this idea is correct, then we are all stuck on what has been called the hedonic treadmill. #JonathanHaidt

In prosperity, after a certain time, it falls back to that state; in adversity, after a certain time, it rises up to it. If this idea is correct, then we are all stuck on what has been called the hedonic treadmill. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 19, 2025

History and societies do not crawl. They make jumps. They go from fracture to fracture, with a few vibrations in between. Yet we (and historians) like to believe in the predictable, small incremental progression. #NassimNicholasTaleb

History and societies do not crawl. They make jumps. They go from fracture to fracture, with a few vibrations in between. Yet we (and historians) like to believe in the predictable, small incremental progression. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 19, 2025

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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 19, 2025

Every society is already characterized by patterned behavior; otherwise it would be pure conflict and no 'society' at all. #JordanPeterson

Every society is already characterized by patterned behavior; otherwise it would be pure conflict and no 'society' at all. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 19, 2025

...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

...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

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

...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

Enjoy the journey. Savor the small things. The luscious taste of a peach, the lavish colors of tropical fish, the rush from exercise that allows one to experience the stern joy which warriors feel. #LuluMiller

Enjoy the journey. Savor the small things. The luscious taste of a peach, the lavish colors of tropical fish, the rush from exercise that allows one to experience the stern joy which warriors feel. #LuluMiller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 18, 2025

The new [capitalist--consumerist] ethic promises paradise on condition that the rich remain greedy and spend their time making more money and that the masses give free reign to their cravings and passions and buy more and more. #YuvalNoahHarari

The new [capitalist--consumerist] ethic promises paradise on condition that the rich remain greedy and spend their time making more money and that the masses give free reign to their cravings and passions and buy more and more. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 18, 2025

We can be geniuses at working out the thousand small steps required to advance a project, but poor at giving ourselves the time and space to figure out whether the project was ever even relevant. #TheSchoolOfLife

We can be geniuses at working out the thousand small steps required to advance a project, but poor at giving ourselves the time and space to figure out whether the project was ever even relevant. #TheSchoolOfLife — 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

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 18, 2025

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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 17, 2025

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. #GaryChapman

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 17, 2025

IF YOUR CHILD IS READY FOR FIRST GRADE: 1979 EDITION [...] 10. Can he repeat an eight- to ten-word sentence, if you say it once, as The boy ran all the way home from the store? 11. Can he count eight to ten pennies correctly? #JonathanHaidt

IF YOUR CHILD IS READY FOR FIRST GRADE: 1979 EDITION [...] 10. Can he repeat an eight- to ten-word sentence, if you say it once, as The boy ran all the way home from the store? 11. Can he count eight to ten pennies correctly? #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 17, 2025

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

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

...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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 17, 2025

The rewards of finding and maintaining balance are neither immediate nor permanent. They require patience and maintenance. We must be willing to move forward despite being uncertain of what lies ahead. #AnnaLembke

The rewards of finding and maintaining balance are neither immediate nor permanent. They require patience and maintenance. We must be willing to move forward despite being uncertain of what lies ahead. #AnnaLembke — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 16, 2025

The technological society is a system of domination. #CWrightMills

The technological society is a system of domination. #CWrightMills — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 16, 2025

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions. #BreneBrown

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions. #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 16, 2025

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

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

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

[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

...the development of the self may have been crucial to the development of human ultrasociality #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 15, 2025

Stepfamilies were much more numerous in the past, the result of high death rates and frequent remarriages. #StephanieCoontz

Stepfamilies were much more numerous in the past, the result of high death rates and frequent remarriages. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 15, 2025

Philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know #MichaelSandel

Philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 15, 2025

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

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

Death reorganises our priorities; it changes our scale of assessment #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 15, 2025

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

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

Probably the truth is discoverable, but the facts will be so dishonestly set forth in almost any newspaper that the ordinary reader can be forgiven either for swallowing lies or for failing to form an opinion. #GeorgeOrwell

Probably the truth is discoverable, but the facts will be so dishonestly set forth in almost any newspaper that the ordinary reader can be forgiven either for swallowing lies or for failing to form an opinion. #GeorgeOrwell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 14, 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

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

Marshall McLuhan was harsh but not wrong when he observed, Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 14, 2025

Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger. #MarshallRosenberg

Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 14, 2025

A logical fallacy is an invalid connection between a premise and a conclusion, where the conclusion does not necessarily flow from the premise(s) but is argued as if it does. #StevenNovella

A logical fallacy is an invalid connection between a premise and a conclusion, where the conclusion does not necessarily flow from the premise(s) but is argued as if it does. #StevenNovella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 14, 2025

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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 14, 2025

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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 13, 2025

Sometimes, in this multifaceted world of ours, inconsistency can be more eloquent than consistency. #HarukiMurakami

Sometimes, in this multifaceted world of ours, inconsistency can be more eloquent than consistency. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 13, 2025

Human greatness and terribleness are not correlated with wealth or other conventional measures of success. #RayDalio

Human greatness and terribleness are not correlated with wealth or other conventional measures of success. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 13, 2025

The research possibilities of new ideas, the interplay of ideas and facts, are not usually considered very important in putting accumulated detail into some sort of textbook order. #CWrightMills

The research possibilities of new ideas, the interplay of ideas and facts, are not usually considered very important in putting accumulated detail into some sort of textbook order. #CWrightMills — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 13, 2025

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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 12, 2025

If the problem is real, then the people who are best at solving the problem at hand should rise to the top. That is not power. It is the authority that properly accompanies ability. #JordanPeterson

If the problem is real, then the people who are best at solving the problem at hand should rise to the top. That is not power. It is the authority that properly accompanies ability. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 12, 2025

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

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

Civil marriage is at once a deeply personal commitment to another human being and a highly public celebration of the ideals of mutuality, companionship, intimacy, fidelity, and family. #MargaretMarshall

Civil marriage is at once a deeply personal commitment to another human being and a highly public celebration of the ideals of mutuality, companionship, intimacy, fidelity, and family. #MargaretMarshall — 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

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

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

I never react to events in the outside world; I always react to the sensations in my own body. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 11, 2025

Outsized regard for oneself is not the outcome of boundless self-love, it is the diseased flower of a terrified, self-doubting mind. #TheSchoolOfLife

Outsized regard for oneself is not the outcome of boundless self-love, it is the diseased flower of a terrified, self-doubting mind. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 11, 2025

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

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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 11, 2025

Continuous growth and the consequent ever-increasing acceleration of the pace of life have profound consequences for the entire planet and, in particular, for cities, socioeconomic life, and the process of global urbanization. #GeoffreyWest

Continuous growth and the consequent ever-increasing acceleration of the pace of life have profound consequences for the entire planet and, in particular, for cities, socioeconomic life, and the process of global urbanization. #GeoffreyWest — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 11, 2025

BLAMING: Focusing on the other person as the source of your negative feelings; you refuse to take responsibility for changing yourself. She's to blame for the way I feel now, or My parents caused all my problems. #JonathanHaidt

BLAMING: Focusing on the other person as the source of your negative feelings; you refuse to take responsibility for changing yourself. She's to blame for the way I feel now, or My parents caused all my problems. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 11, 2025

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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 10, 2025

When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion. #SusanCain

When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 10, 2025

I think evolutionary psychology has put too much emphasis on male resources instead of male fitness in explaining women's sexual preferences. #GeoffreyMiller

I think evolutionary psychology has put too much emphasis on male resources instead of male fitness in explaining women's sexual preferences. #GeoffreyMiller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 10, 2025

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

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

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

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

[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

Depressed people are caught in a feedback loop in which distorted thoughts cause negative feelings, which then distort thinking further. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 9, 2025

'Things which are not' are indeed mightier than 'things that are'. In all ages men have fought most desperately for beautiful cities yet to be built and gardens yet to be planted. #EricHoffer

'Things which are not' are indeed mightier than 'things that are'. In all ages men have fought most desperately for beautiful cities yet to be built and gardens yet to be planted. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 9, 2025

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

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

There is a window of higher impressionability running from about age fourteen to twenty-four, with its peak right around age eighteen. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 9, 2025

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now, always. #AlbertSchweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now, always. #AlbertSchweitzer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 8, 2025

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

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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 8, 2025

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general. #DanielKahneman

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 8, 2025

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor. #AynRand

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor. #AynRand — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 8, 2025

Ideas and opinions are not [born in each individual]: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the [current] political form #AntonioGramsci

Ideas and opinions are not [born in each individual]: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the [current] political form #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 8, 2025

For 5,000 years, the Chinese have believed that the country is safe only when the center is strong #LeeKuanYew

For 5,000 years, the Chinese have believed that the country is safe only when the center is strong #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 8, 2025

One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty. #DanielKahneman

One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 7, 2025

The better you know something, the less you remember about how hard it was to learn. The curse of knowledge is the single best explanation I know of why good people write bad prose. #StevenPinker

The better you know something, the less you remember about how hard it was to learn. The curse of knowledge is the single best explanation I know of why good people write bad prose. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 7, 2025

There has been much less time for the market forces that act on companies to reach the kind of meta-stable configuration manifested in the systematic scaling laws obeyed by cities and organisms. #GeoffreyWest

There has been much less time for the market forces that act on companies to reach the kind of meta-stable configuration manifested in the systematic scaling laws obeyed by cities and organisms. #GeoffreyWest — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 7, 2025

A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning. #BenjaminHoff

A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 7, 2025

Loyalty to parents was paramount [...] Sons were sometimes ordered beaten for siding with their wives against their father. #StephanieCoontz

Loyalty to parents was paramount [...] Sons were sometimes ordered beaten for siding with their wives against their father. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 7, 2025

When modern philosophy began to devote itself to the study of logic and rationality, it gradually lost interest in psychology and lost touch with the passionate, contextualized nature of human life. #JonathanHaidt

When modern philosophy began to devote itself to the study of logic and rationality, it gradually lost interest in psychology and lost touch with the passionate, contextualized nature of human life. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 7, 2025

No doubt a citizenry schooled in renouncing desires--and whatever quantities of imagination and independence they come partnered with--would be [...] advantageous: note that the conditions of lovability are remarkably convergent with those of a cowed workforce... #LauraKipnis

No doubt a citizenry schooled in renouncing desires--and whatever quantities of imagination and independence they come partnered with--would be [...] advantageous: note that the conditions of lovability are remarkably convergent with those of a cowed workforce... #LauraKipnis — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 6, 2025

Experience taught me how invaluable it is to reflect on and write down my decision-making criteria whenever I made a decision, so I got in the habit of doing that. #RayDalio

Experience taught me how invaluable it is to reflect on and write down my decision-making criteria whenever I made a decision, so I got in the habit of doing that. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 6, 2025

...studies of former smokers [found] 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

...studies of former smokers [found] 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 6, 2025

[WEIRD--Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic] people are statistical outliers; they are the least typical, least representative people you could study if you want to make generalizations about human nature. #JonathanHaidt

[WEIRD--Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic] people are statistical outliers; they are the least typical, least representative people you could study if you want to make generalizations about human nature. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 6, 2025

There are tensions between rival goods, and you just have to accept that you will never get to live a pure and perfect life, devoted to one truth or one value. The moderate has limited aspirations about what can be achieved in public life. #DavidBrooks

There are tensions between rival goods, and you just have to accept that you will never get to live a pure and perfect life, devoted to one truth or one value. The moderate has limited aspirations about what can be achieved in public life. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 5, 2025

This is a cruel confluence of time and space: just as we lose noncommercial spaces, we also see all of our own time and our actions as potentially commercial. #JennyOdell

This is a cruel confluence of time and space: just as we lose noncommercial spaces, we also see all of our own time and our actions as potentially commercial. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 5, 2025

The claim that people deserve the rewards that come from effort and hard work is questionable [...] although proponents of meritocracy often invoke the virtues of effort, they don't really believe that effort alone should be the basis of income and wealth. #MichaelSandel

The claim that people deserve the rewards that come from effort and hard work is questionable [...] although proponents of meritocracy often invoke the virtues of effort, they don't really believe that effort alone should be the basis of income and wealth. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 5, 2025

For the Church of Sweden, the Church of England, the German Lutheran Church and many other branches of European Christianity, the message of the religion has become a form of left-wing politics, diversity action and social welfare projects. #DouglasMurray

For the Church of Sweden, the Church of England, the German Lutheran Church and many other branches of European Christianity, the message of the religion has become a form of left-wing politics, diversity action and social welfare projects. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 5, 2025

These good narrators accept that lives can be meaningful even when they involve a lot of failure and humiliation. Mistakes are not dead ends; they are sources of information that can be exploited and put to work as guides to more effective subsequent action. #TheSchoolOfLife

These good narrators accept that lives can be meaningful even when they involve a lot of failure and humiliation. Mistakes are not dead ends; they are sources of information that can be exploited and put to work as guides to more effective subsequent action. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 5, 2025

Silence isn't neutrality; it is supporting the status-quo. #YuvalNoahHarari

Silence isn't neutrality; it is supporting the status-quo. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 5, 2025

The Bella Coola and the Kwakiutl societies of the Pacific Northwest provide a striking example of how establishing connections between kin groups sometimes took precedence over sexual or reproductive issues in determining marriage. #StephanieCoontz

The Bella Coola and the Kwakiutl societies of the Pacific Northwest provide a striking example of how establishing connections between kin groups sometimes took precedence over sexual or reproductive issues in determining marriage. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 4, 2025

Focused on your image in the mirror a few moments longer, and say to yourself, Whatever my defects or imperfections, I accept myself unreservedly and completely. Stay focused, breathe deeply, and say this over and over again for a minute or two without rushing #NathanielBranden

Focused on your image in the mirror a few moments longer, and say to yourself, Whatever my defects or imperfections, I accept myself unreservedly and completely. Stay focused, breathe deeply, and say this over and over again for a minute or two without rushing #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 4, 2025

...unsurprising that studies show an increase in anxiety, depression and mental illness in young people today. Rather than being a demonstration of 'snowflake'-ism it is a wholly understandable reaction to a world whose complexities have squared in their lifetimes. #DouglasMurray

...unsurprising that studies show an increase in anxiety, depression and mental illness in young people today. Rather than being a demonstration of 'snowflake'-ism it is a wholly understandable reaction to a world whose complexities have squared in their lifetimes. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 4, 2025

But for most patients and their families we are asking too much. They remain riven by doubt and fear and desperation; some are deluded by a fantasy of what medical science can achieve. Our responsibility, in medicine, is to deal with human beings as they are. #AtulGawande

But for most patients and their families we are asking too much. They remain riven by doubt and fear and desperation; some are deluded by a fantasy of what medical science can achieve. Our responsibility, in medicine, is to deal with human beings as they are. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 4, 2025

Emotionally immature people can be extremely charming and at points entertaining to be around. But as a general rule, we'd be advised to give them a very wide berth indeed and aim to check in on them in a decade or two. #TheSchoolOfLife

Emotionally immature people can be extremely charming and at points entertaining to be around. But as a general rule, we'd be advised to give them a very wide berth indeed and aim to check in on them in a decade or two. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 4, 2025

The emperor does not govern the barbarians. Those who come to him will not be rejected, and those who leave will not be pursued. The objective was a compliant, divided periphery, rather than one directly under Chinese control. #HenryKissinger

The emperor does not govern the barbarians. Those who come to him will not be rejected, and those who leave will not be pursued. The objective was a compliant, divided periphery, rather than one directly under Chinese control. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 4, 2025

Variety is the spice of life because it is the natural enemy of adaptation. #JonathanHaidt

Variety is the spice of life because it is the natural enemy of adaptation. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 3, 2025

But simplicity is really an achievement--it follows from hard-won clarity about what matters. #TheSchoolOfLife

But simplicity is really an achievement--it follows from hard-won clarity about what matters. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 3, 2025

You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. #HarukiMurakami

You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 3, 2025

Who in the world could possibly have warm feelings, or something like them, for a person [personality of the author] who doesn't compromise, who instead, whenever a problem crops up, locks himself away alone in a closet? #HarukiMurakami

Who in the world could possibly have warm feelings, or something like them, for a person [personality of the author] who doesn't compromise, who instead, whenever a problem crops up, locks himself away alone in a closet? #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 3, 2025

Sickness and old age make the struggle hard enough. The professionals and institutions we turn to should not make it worse [...] not to confine people's choices, in the name of safety, but to expand them, in the name of living a worthwhile life. #AtulGawande

Sickness and old age make the struggle hard enough. The professionals and institutions we turn to should not make it worse [...] not to confine people's choices, in the name of safety, but to expand them, in the name of living a worthwhile life. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 2, 2025

One ATM could do the work of no fewer than thirty-seven human tellers (and, into the bargain, rarely fell ill). In the United States, about half of all those employed in retail banking--some 500,000 people--lost their jobs between 1980 and 1995 [due to ATM machines] #AlaindeBot…

One ATM could do the work of no fewer than thirty-seven human tellers (and, into the bargain, rarely fell ill). In the United States, about half of all those employed in retail banking--some 500,000 people--lost their jobs between 1980 and 1995 [due to ATM machines] #AlaindeBot… — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 2, 2025

..there are a few last remains of yesterday. The argument you had last night feels far away. Why did it matter? Dawn is the world's reminder to let yesterday go. When everyone else is asleep, the house feels like it is just yours. You can remember why you like it #TheSchoolOfLife

..there are a few last remains of yesterday. The argument you had last night feels far away. Why did it matter? Dawn is the world's reminder to let yesterday go. When everyone else is asleep, the house feels like it is just yours. You can remember why you like it #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 2, 2025

Horrified by the newness of the ill, both the poor man and the rich man hope to flee from wealth, hating what they once had prayed for. #JeanJacquesRousseau

Horrified by the newness of the ill, both the poor man and the rich man hope to flee from wealth, hating what they once had prayed for. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 2, 2025

Suddenly your conversation consists mostly of descriptions of how busy you are. Suddenly you're a chilly mortal, going into hyper-people-pleasing mode anytime you're around your boss [...] You begin to view yourself not as a soul to be uplifted... #DavidBrooks

Suddenly your conversation consists mostly of descriptions of how busy you are. Suddenly you're a chilly mortal, going into hyper-people-pleasing mode anytime you're around your boss [...] You begin to view yourself not as a soul to be uplifted... #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 2, 2025

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. #DanielKahneman

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 1, 2025

Homo sapiens is a storytelling animal that thinks in stories rather than in numbers or graphs, and believes that the universe itself works like a story, replete with heroes and villains, conflicts and resolutions, climaxes and happy endings. #YuvalNoahHarari

Homo sapiens is a storytelling animal that thinks in stories rather than in numbers or graphs, and believes that the universe itself works like a story, replete with heroes and villains, conflicts and resolutions, climaxes and happy endings. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 1, 2025

Lacking a coherent view of how people might live successfully all the way to their very end, we have allowed our fates to be controlled by the imperatives of medicine, technology, and strangers. #AtulGawande

Lacking a coherent view of how people might live successfully all the way to their very end, we have allowed our fates to be controlled by the imperatives of medicine, technology, and strangers. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 1, 2025

A new discovery in Sara's study is that moral elevation appears to be different from admiration for nonmoral excellence. #JonathanHaidt