“Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations, and the simpler the story, the better.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.”
― The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
― The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
“I believe that another task which needs doing before we can have a good world is the development of a humanistic and transpersonal psychology of evil, one written out of compassion and love for human nature rather than out of disgust with it or out of hopelessness.”
― Toward a Psychology of Being
― Toward a Psychology of Being
“The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. —G. C. Lichtenberg”
― The Intelligent Investor
― The Intelligent Investor
“Morality doesn’t mean ‘following divine commands’. It means ‘reducing suffering’. Hence in order to act morally, you don’t need to believe in any myth or story. You just need to develop a deep appreciation of suffering.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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