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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
Quote by -Emil Cioran
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
Quote by -Emil Cioran
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Quote by -Emil Cioran
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Quote by -Emil Cioran
“No other writer tells a story so well and with so much profound philosophy as Haruki Murakami does!”
Quote by -John Donne
Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.
Quote by -Julia Holter
Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.
Quote by -Julia Holter
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.
Quote by -Julia Holter
It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.
Quote by -Julia Holter
Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.
Quote by -Julia Holter
People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.
Quote by -Julia Holter
Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.
Quote by -Julia Holter
It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.
Quote by -Julia Holter
From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.
Quote by -Julia Holter
Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.
Quote by -Julia Holter
There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!
Quote by -Julia Holter
I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.
Quote by -Julia Holter
Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.
Quote by -Julia Holter
When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation.
Quote by -Julia Holter
One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.
Quote by -Julia Holter
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I don't believe in God because certain reasons and arguments weigh more heavily in my mind than others, not because I have willfully decided to reject my creator, as many religious people seem to think. I could no more simply decide to believe in God than I could decide to like beetroot, just like that.
Quote by -Julia Holter
Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.
Quote by -Julia Holter
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
Quote by -Julia Holter
The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.
Quote by -Julia Holter
The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.
Quote by -Julia Holter
Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.
Quote by -Julia Holter
Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.
Quote by -Julia Holter
If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.
Quote by -Julia Holter
If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To care obsessively about similar levels of discomfort in animals seems to be a case of mistaken moral priorities.
Quote by -Julia Holter
Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.
Quote by -Julia Holter
If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.
Quote by -Julia Holter
The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.
Quote by -Julia Holter
Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us.
Quote by -Julia Holter
Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.
Quote by -Julia Holter
The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.
Quote by -Julia Holter
The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.
Quote by -Julia Holter
The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.
Quote by -Julia Holter
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.
Quote by -Julia Holter