Stefan Molyneux
Journalist
1966-09-24
Quotes by Stefan Molyneux
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There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.
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Excuses are a promise of repetition.
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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.
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Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.
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Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.
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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.
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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.
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The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: Human Nature.
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The expression of preferences is the essence of love.
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The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.
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Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.
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Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.
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The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
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We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.
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The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
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We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.
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We raise predators by treating children as prey.
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There's no weakness as great as false strength.
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Pulse proximity is not intimacy.
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Anger is the immune system of the soul.
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