Today, the Scottish Supreme Court has ruled Woman means biological sex. This is a huge win for those of us with common sense.

You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued.

No tree can grow to Heaven,” adds the ever-terrifying Carl Gustav Jung, psychoanalyst extraordinaire, “unless its roots reach down to Hell.

Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.

So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous.

Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.

To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.

The kind the compassionate left

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

When you have something to say, silence is a lie.

The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.

I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.

Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.

Freedom of speech is not just another principle, it is the mechanism by which we keep our psyches and our societies organized and we have to be unbelievably careful about infringing upon that because we are infringing upon the process by which we keep chaos and order balanced.