Michael > Michael's Quotes

“If you tell the truth and nothing else, you will have an immense adventure.”
― Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“As long as we observe love for others and respect for their
rights and dignity in our daily lives, then whether we are
learned or unlearned, whether we believe in the Buddha
or God, follow some religion or none at all, as long as we
have compassion for others and conduct ourselves with
restraint out of a sense of responsibility, there is no doubt
we will be happy.”
― Dalai Lama

“Once the human mind has favored certain views, it pulls
everything else into agreement with and support for them.
Should they be outweighed by more powerful countervailing
considerations, it either fails to notice these, or scorns them,
or makes fine distinctions in order to neutralize or reject
them . . . thereby leaving untouched the authority of its
previous position.”
― Francis Bacon

“We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in
any propositions, however absurd, when they are sustained
by a community of likeminded believers.”
― Daniel Kahneman

“Keep death and exile before your eyes each day.”
― Epictetus

“Lucky people tend to
expand, to fill the space their luck has given them.”
― Wallace Shawn

“No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.”
― Mark Twain