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81 " Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness. "
― Stefan Molyneux
82 " There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity. "
83 " Anger is the immune system of the soul. "
84 " Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love. "
85 " We are creatures built on a house of cards of language. "
86 " The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies. "
87 " Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are. "
88 " We raise predators by treating children as prey. "
89 " The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat. "
90 " Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true. "
91 " All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering "
92 " We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive. "
93 " The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health. "
94 " The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered. "
95 " If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing. "
96 " Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person. "
97 " No mean person is mean all the time. The whole point of being mean is to fluctuate so that you can hold out the hope for someone. So someone will hold out the hope that they're gonna catch you on the sunny side or that you're gonna be nice this time. The tyranny is inconsistency. Somebody thats consistently mean is something that is pretty easy to sort out. The reality is that the meanest people can be wonderful sometimes. That's the whole point of meanness because otherwise it's too obvious. It's the niceness that gets you trapped in the dysfunction. That is the problem and so the fact that you have this belief that there is hope in the relationship is foundational to the dysfunction. "
98 " All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering. "
99 " Honesty requires that we communicate our thoughts and feelings, not our conclusions. "
― Stefan Molyneux , Real-Time Relationships: The Logic of Love
100 " All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style. "