Robert Greene You can avoid attacks by being incompressible, like water (which we normally approximate as incompressible). No matter how much force you apply to water, for the most part, it just adapts to the force and takes no strain. But how can a human be incompressible? It can’t be

Alex O'Connor If you want to make this more fair imo, put the classical guys together: Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes, and Epicurus. Then the existentialists: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Camus. Then Augustine, Aquinas, Kant, and Hegel. Then Plotinus, eckhart, Heraclitus, and pascal.

Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. I see your point, but “if only” is also the start of imagination and the move towards changing the future for the better.

Scott Wilson From Proverbs: A wife of noble character who can find?     She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her     and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm,     all the days of her life. She selects wool and flax     and works with eager

Elon Musk This is actually just a variation of Nietzsche’s belief about the ubermensch or Superman: “What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal; what can be loved in man is that he is a going-across and a down-going…I want to teach men the meaning of their existence:

This largely assumes that we fake who we are in the presence of others. But the presence, accountability, and vision of brought by another can actually move us closer towards our real self and values too. E.g - an alcoholic father wants to drink, sees the sad eyes of his kid,

DAN KOE Many worthwhile things in life come from trusting your intuition. “The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Simply doing the opposite of what most people do makes

BREAKING: Google Earth updated their images of Gaza. Compare. Being against this is not “antisemitic” or “pro-terrorist”. It’s pro-human. Sincerely, A Jewish American.

“What is the most important subject to study at university? What is the most important subject to learn in life? To learn to love.” - Pope Francis (RIP), A Good Life

“Love, all that we have been able to give, will be revealed as the only true wealth…A great Father of the Church, St. John Chrysostom, once wrote: ‘So it is in life: when death comes and the play is over, everyone takes off their masks of wealth or poverty and leaves this world.

DAN KOE This just creates an infinite regress of people depending on others for ideas. Where does the first guy get his great ideas from? Imitate him.

Incorrect and simplistic. If it were true, we wouldn’t ever have new desires. Not to mention easily falsifiable. If I showed you a glass of water when you were thirsty, you would want to drink it. Then if I told you it was actually poison and not water, your desire would likely

DAN KOE “What would the average person do when dehydrated? Hydrate themselves. I will do the opposite.” *Dies.*

Jacob Shell Diversity of thought isn’t itself a necessarily good thing. Imagine two hospitals. At one, all of the doctors agree on the treatment. At the other, all of the doctors have diverse one’s. Which one would you go to? Depends on the details. Maybe at the one where they have a

(1) Correlation is not equals to causation. (2) 70 years of 2 data points is not remotely enough to substantiate your claim. (3) Greeks, Hindus, and even Christian’s have deified women and thrived as cultures.

Saint Augustine on the difference between how good and bad people suffer:

Crémieux Super oversimplified way to look at the data. How are you measuring “doing better”? Kids of rich parents may easily learn that money doesn’t bring happiness and sacrifice it for a more fulfilling life? That’s one possible theory.

When Joan of Arc was on trial, they consistently tried to fault her with “doing a man’s work” and wearing men’s attire. They believed she did something wrong by not acting out the “correct” role of her sex. Now she is canonized as a saint. I wonder what society today would