“If you were raised badly, then you were conditioned by your parents to serve their dysfunctional needs, rather than the truth, integrity, honesty or any of the other basic virtues in life.”
― Essential Philosophy: How to know what on earth is going on
― Essential Philosophy: How to know what on earth is going on
“If you lack self-knowledge – if you lack the basic understanding of how you have been turned into a machine that serves the state, into a subspecies of tax livestock that serves politicians – then how can you claim to have any real understanding of freedom, let alone free will?”
― Essential Philosophy: How to know what on earth is going on
― Essential Philosophy: How to know what on earth is going on
“Calling someone a “racist” is rather pointless to anyone with half a brain. If someone is a racist, pointing out the reasons why is sufficient to communicate the conclusion. If The Argument begins with the conclusion,”
― The Art of The Argument: Western Civilization's Last Stand
― The Art of The Argument: Western Civilization's Last Stand
“It is the height of human happiness to have somebody to love. Our agony is that we have all the light and the paint but no canvas to put the art of our hearts on.”
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“Without the state, we are told, we will be overrun by the insanity and evil of those around us – but the state is also somehow legitimized by the votes of the insane and evil around us.”
― Essential Philosophy: How to know what on earth is going on
― Essential Philosophy: How to know what on earth is going on
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