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#1

“Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.”
― Ludwig von Mises

tags: common-sense, directional, hard-work

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#2

“Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping toward destruction. Therefore, everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.”
― Ludwig Von Mises

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#3

“If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization”
― Ludwig von Mises

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#4

“He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, free-market, freedom, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, statism, voluntaryism

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#5

“The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.”
― Ludwig Von Mises, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

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#6

“He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.”
― Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

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#7

“Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.”
― Ludwig Von Mises, Liberalism: The Classical Tradition

tags: capitalism, economics, leisure, luxury, wealth

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#8

“The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.”
― Ludwig Von Mises, Liberalism: The Classical Tradition

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#9

“It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers, the people, the common man, prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

tags: economics, profit

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#10

“Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.”
― Ludwig von Mises

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-economics, austrian-school-of-economics, capitalism, coercion, communism, force, free-market, freedom, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, nap, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, totalitarianism, voluntaryism

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#11

“Praxeology is a theoretical and systematic, not a historical, science. Its scope is human action as such, irrespective of all environmental, accidental, and individual circumstances of the concrete acts. Its cognition is purely formal and general without reference to the material content and the particular features of the actual case. It aims at knowledge valid for all instances in which the conditions exactly correspond to those implied in its assumptions and inferences. Its statements and propositions are not derived from experience. They are, like those of logic and mathematics, a priori. They are not subject to verification or falsification on the ground of experience and facts.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

tags: economics, empiricism, falsification, libertarianism, pseudoscience, reality, science

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#12

“Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism: The Classical Tradition

tags: force, freedom-of-thought, interventionism, liberty, peace, property

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#13

“You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay”
― Jordan B. Peterson

tags: jordan, peterson, truth

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#14

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: common-sense, enterprise, hard-work, inspirational, perseverance, persistence, success, thomas-edison

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#15

“I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: hard-work, luck

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#16

“...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

tags: experience, hard-work, humility, talent

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#17

“Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.”
― Ron Paul

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#18

“An individual can be hurt in countless ways by other men's irrationality, dishonesty, injustice. Above all, he can be disappointed, perhaps grievously, by the vices of a person he had once trusted or loved. But as long as his property is not expropriated and he remains unmolested physically, the damage he sustains is essentially spiritual, not physical; in such a case, the victim alone has the power and the responsibility of healing his wounds. He remains free: free to think, to learn from his experiences, to look elsewhere for human relationships; he remains free to start afresh and to pursue his happiness.”
― Leonard Peikoff, Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

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#19

“Every argument for God and every attribute ascribed to Him rests on a false metaphysical premise. None can survive for a moment on a correct metaphysics....

Existence exists, and only existence exists. Existence is a primary: it is uncreated, indestructible, eternal. So if you are to postulate something beyond existence—some supernatural realm—you must do it by openly denying reason, dispensing with definitions, proofs, arguments, and saying flatly, “To Hell with argument, I have faith.” That, of course, is a willful rejection of reason.

Objectivism advocates reason as man’s sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any supernatural dimension presented as a contradiction of nature, of existence. This applies not only to God, but also to every variant of the supernatural ever advocated or to be advocated. In other words, we accept reality, and that’s all.”
― Leonard Peikoff, Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

tags: atheism, reality

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#20

“To save the world is the
simplest thing in the world.
All one has to do is think.”
― Leonard Peikoff

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#21

“To irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be consistently practiced in reality.

--as quoted by Leonard Peikoff in "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand”
― Ayn Rand

tags: objectivism, rational-thought, reason

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#22

“The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.”
― Leonard Peikoff, The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out

tags: history, philosophy

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#23

“The process of spreading a philosophy by means of free discussion among thinking adults is long and complex. From Plato to the present, it has been the dream of social planners to circumvent this process and, instead, to inject a controversial ideology directly into the plastic, unformed minds of children—by means of seizing a country’s educational system and turning it into a vehicle for indoctrination. In this way one may capture an entire generation without intellectual resistance, in a single coup d’école.”
― Leonard Peikoff, The Ominous Parallels

tags: disscussion, education, indoctrination, philosophy

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#24

“There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: freedomain-radio, love, stefan-molyneux, truth

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#25

“Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: abuse, avoidance, child-abuse, denial, psychology, trauma

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#26

“Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: bravery, censorship, courage, critical-thinking, debate, discussions, freedom, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, knowledge, objectivism, pc, philosophy, political-correctness, psychology, rationality, relationships, safe-space, self-knowledge, sick, society, trigger, trigger-warning

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#27

“I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: abuse, childhood-abuse, freedom, philosophy, psychology, self-esteem, self-knowledge, society, trauma

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#28

“The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: abuse, freedom, liberation, philosophy, psychology, self-knowledge, trauma

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#29

“Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.”
― Stefan Molyneux

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