
“Everyone matters more than you except to yourself.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Everyone matters more than you except to yourself.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.”
“Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
“The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.”
Source: Epigrams, p. 358
“The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.”
"The Science to Save Us from Science," The New York Times Magazine (19 March 1950)
1950s
Context: All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
“When you’re a charmer
you hate yourself
a victim of sideshow hypnosis
like everyone else.”
"Charmer"
Song lyrics, Charmer (2012)
Context: When you’re a charmer
the world applauds
they don’t know that secretly charmers
feel like they’re frauds When you’re a charmer
you hate yourself
a victim of sideshow hypnosis
like everyone else.