561 Quotes About Self-knowledge

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on "screw children", and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us.

Living an honest life starts with self-knowledge. Self-knowledge starts with closing your eyes.

The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.

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

I know who I am without anyone there to tell me.

I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. But we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. Most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. We are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.