Stefan Molyneux Quotes - Page 3

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

Most people, if philosophy touches them, they shatter, they atomize, they turn to dust. It is win/lose between philosophy and delusion, and most people are almost entirely composed of delusion. They're only allowed as much reality as serves the masters. But they're not allowed any reality which disturbs their masters...

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?

History is the same story with different costumes.

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

Blessed are the peacemakers? Billed are the warmongers, and then you shall have peace.

The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government).

And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.

Spiritual": religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.

The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.

If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.

To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure.

Applying parents values back to them allot of the time is like trying to pay back a guy who is a counterfeiter with his own counterfeit bills. "No, your supposed to think this is real money. I know it's not. I'm only pretending this is real money to get away with something. I don't actually want to receive it because I know it's fake money.

Anybody who tries to change society without first examining the family, is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

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.