Psychology Quotes - Page 20

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you everything about how tragically they were raised.

The challenge for people today-and it is not and easy one-is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance rather than the internalization of moral standards.

Дорогой Джун, я вовсе не стремлюсь к тому, чтобы у тебя создалось лучшее или худшее мнен�

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.

There’s nothing lonelier than empty relationships. At least when you’re alone you can be yourself, but when you’re in empty relationships you can’t even be yourself.
You can be real alone, or you can be a ghost with false friends.
Pulse proximity is not intimacy, and it’s worse than no friends at all.

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.

All we think about in the cycle of violence is men.
If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children.

The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.

Free man needs loyalty to the self first of all, and this implies the right to be himself

We live in a world of constant noise which captures our minds even when we are not aware of it

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.