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“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal

“We are like monkeys who dwell in the forest and shit on the very branches from which we hang.”
― Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, What Makes You Not a Buddhist

“If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences.

For example if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you'd like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist