Discover Powerful and Inspirational Quotes to Motivate Your Life

The point of maximum proper being is right at the center of the border between chaos and order

It's extremely useful to represent the phenomenology of your experience as a domain of chaos and order. That works for every single environment for every person

Your moral duty is to realize the archetype in the confines of your own life

"Let's just destroy the past" - No! That would be like saying well you don't need a body anymore, because your body is the collected wisdom of the evolutionary process across three and a half billion years

Get the hell out of where you are safe into what you don't know. You are going to find the catastrophes of life but if you keep yourself morally oriented and you make the right sacrifices then you can transcend the catastrophe of being and prevail

Bible is the documentation of the emergence of the idea of the divine individual

If you are going to be creative it's because you are tormented by a problem. If you are not in a position to be tormented by a problem, you are not going to put in time and effort to take the risk necessary to be creative

Many people don't want to bear the responsibility of developing themselves as individuals

Well-developed individual is the antidote to the tyranny of society and biology

Get your act together!
Have a vision!
Straighten our your life!
Say what you think!
Stay away from the ideological idiocies and simplicity and oversimplifications and try to put yourself together!

Agreeable people overall make less money in the same positions and it's because they don't negotiate on their own behalf very well

Agreeable people don't make as much money and the reason for that is to make money you actually have to be disagreeable. Because you have to go to your boss and say - give me some bloody money or something you don't like will happen to you

On average women are more agreeable than men

Disgust sensitivity is associated with orderliness and you need order in a society in order to maintain it and the Germans are very orderly and that was actually a canonical part of their civilization and part of actually what makes them great and powerful

If you are a group of isolated humans and you meet another group of isolated humans and you trade pathogens there's a real possibility that you and everyone you know are going to be dead in no time flat

Orderliness is associated with sensitivity to disgust

Your political belief is strongly determined by your temperament

Something can have evolved as a virtue in some circumstances and still be of the type that if magnified beyond its proper limits becomes pathological

There is something extraordinarily dangerous about having people revert to identification with their racial identity. It's really not a good thing

As you retreat from the chaos into your own little prison, you get weaker and weaker and the prison gets smaller and smaller and the chaos gets bigger and bigger. It's really an ugly pathway and you get more and more bitter and resentful and much more afraid of having your prison walls breached. It's a downward spiral

Rational mind falls in love with its own productions or even more that it tries to elevate its productions to the status of God

What does it mean to have a meaningful life?

What does it mean to have a meaningful life exactly? Maybe it means to take responsibility, because your sacrifices have to be worth something. It has to have some meat what you are aiming at. It has to be something that can elevate your worm-like self to the level of tolerability

Why not lie all the time? Well, there is a bunch of reasons but one of them is that you can't trust yourself if you lie and there's going to be times in your life where you have no one to turn to except you and so if you've stuffed yourself full of lies then you're going to be in a crisis one day and you're gonna have to make a decision and you're gonna decide wrong and you're going to be in real trouble because you won't have the clarity of mind necessary to make the proper judgement. Because you filled your imagination and your perception with rubbish

Telling the truth is a good start because then you don't fool yourself about who you are