"People cannot survive ten minutes without meaning."
Sam Vaknin Quote
"To love another, one must first love oneself."
"Process of intellectual fermentation precedes any transformation."
"Leadership is to be able to share the bad news."
"You need to reduce yourself to Nothing. It's only from this kernel that you can grow into real You."
"Work on yourself and by example you will influence others."
"There is no animal without an ecosystem. There is no human without an egosystem."
"Even right actions done for wrong motivation create dissonance."
"Belief is purely cognitive, not emotional."
"Democracy is a sham."
"Maybe self awareness is exactly the opposite of self efficacy."
"Talk therapy is the exact equivalent of medication."
"Western civilisation is a death cult, a cult of inanimate objects."
"Pursuit of meaning, addiction to hope and aversion to risk are the greatest curses of this century and last one."
"A weak ego is incapable of productive work."
"Everything you are choosing, you are enjoying."
"Number one, two and three problems of victims is that they don't know what they want."
"Being a man is a decision."
"We first discover drugs, then invent diseases which these drugs treat."
"There's much more happiness in nothingness, than in somethingness."
"Sigmund Freud taught us that most women have daddy issues and most men have mommy issues."
"Witches were persecuted 300 years ago in many societies. Today, of course, we don't believe in witches unless you are married to one."
"Materialistic capitalism is a death cult."
"Science approximates truth. It can never attain it. It's asymptotic."
"Philosophy is not about answers. Philosophy is about formulating the right questions."
"Psychiatrists and psychologists treat the condition, not the people. They give the pills to the condition."
"Depression is the gap between fantasy and reality."
"There is no giant in you, because you are not a giant."
"The last thing you need to hear in therapy is what you want to hear."
"We are all forced to be polymaths. We are all going to have multiple careers."
"Pain is the certificate of virtue for the abused."
"Nothing is more harmful to your health than hope."
"You should always choose what's true in place of what is working."
"To love another person, one must first love oneself."
"If you are alive, you are self efficacious."
"You need to be self aware in order to accept yourself."
"If there is no dis-ease, there is no disease."
"Expectation is the main commodity."
"Talk therapy modifies the brain as much as any pill."
"We've sinned against each other and the name of that sin is narcissism."
"Meaning can only come from inside, never from the outside."
"Identity is a process."
"In psychology we call people objects, in philosophy we call them subjects."
"Addiction can be overcome, conditioning is much more difficult."