Neil Gaiman Quote

For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or i...

Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

My simple explanation of why we human beings, the most advanced species on earth, cannot find happiness, is this: as we evolve up the ladder of being, we find three things: the first, that the tension...

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

When he told F. of his disgust at the eyelid's movement, he must have been sixteen. When he decided to study medicine, he must have been nineteen; by then, having already signed on to the contract to...

I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen.

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone...

Cognitive science has something of enormous importance to contribute to human freedom: the ability to learn what our unconscious conceptual systems are like and how our cognitive unconscious functions...

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.