Stefan Molyneux

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

There's great peace in surrendering to principles

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

Honesty requires that we communicate our thoughts and feelings, not our conclusions.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

The woman who left abusive husbands in the 60's and 70's improved the institution of marriage because men now know that women can leave their husbands and the women or men who stay in abusive relationships are a massive advertisement to non- consequentiality of abuse.So, if you stay in a abusive relationship you are signaling to everyone who ever comes in contact with you or hears about you that abusers face no consequences to their abuse therefore by staying in an abusive relationship you are encouraging and subsidizing abuse.By getting out of abusive relationships you are saying the whole world over that abusers can't get away with it. That there are negative consequences to child, adult, or spousal abuse. You name it. It just doesn't have consequences for you, it has consequences for other people.When you break out and reject abusive and irredeemable relationships you are sending a clear signal which all abusers are listening for at all times. "Can I get away with it?" That's all they're thinking. It is my hope that abusers hear this and say "Oh shit. The game is up.

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.

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

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.

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.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.

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

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

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

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.