Literature

Teaching Life: The Rudest Book Ever Quotes

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June 21, 2024

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"What is status? It is a mental process of separating homo sapiens on the basis of who owns more expensive things despite remaining the exact same amount of human." 

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"Life satisfaction is long and pleasant because you act with the awareness that life is short and subtractive.” 

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"Art is ideas without judgements. And you get to date those ideas when you engage with art for a while." 

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"Focus on learning, learn what you enjoy, enjoy what you are learning, capitalize on what you are learning, but most of all, enjoy the life you are living." 

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"As long as you're alive, free and functioning well, if you want to climb till the top, the chance exists." 

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"Freedom from something doesn't mean never having it again. It means being free from its control." 

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"You are kids pretending to be adults in a world where human adults are still mentally children." 

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"A lot of our actions are gambles. A lot of our actions are selfish, short-term wants which hurt us. A lot of our actions are the opposite of what we rationally want to do." 

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"Self-knowledge comes with accepting that you have a great capacity to cause damage to yourself and to others in many ways." 

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"As long as they are homo sapiens, they are as small as you - if you take that personally, it might feel insulting, but if you take that universally, it is comforting." 

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"We have very few packets of information because, frankly, it is impossible to know everything, or much about everything or even a little about everything." 

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"Human ignorance is not knowing less, but not having a clue about how much we don't know.” 

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