Philosophy, when done properly, generates definitive answers, much like any other discipline. When philosophers tell you that philosophy is a ‘never ending dialogue’ or that it is ‘more about the questions than the answers’, they are simply hiding their own failure to get results and they are rationalizing the existence of the bureaucracies that employ them, which bureaucracies depend for their existence on questions remaining unanswered.

You should see OCD, depression, and paranoia as being about almost but not quite having the life you want. They are all ways that frustrated urges are trying, without success, to express themselves. And you should modify your life so that they can express themselves.

An analysis of criminality

The number one rule of successful entrepreneurship is: be true to yourself. Successful businesses are organic extensions of their owners. This holds even of psychopaths who are running fraudulent businesses. For a psychopath is someone who has no identity and therefore must manufacture identities, and that is what he is doing when he is running a fake business.

A fiction-based but still legitimate illustration of the principle that the behavior of the individuals composing a given institution tends to mirror the behavior of that institution as a whole.

Mental illnesses tend to afflict people who are unusually sensitive and aware—people who have an abundance of intelligence and emotional connectedness---and mental illnesses are best thought of, not as deficiencies, but as ‘inverted’ capabilities.

From forthcoming audio book.

Religion represents the convergence of spirituality and rationality. Religion, in other words, is rationalized spirituality; it is spirituality that is subject to a kind of Euclidean axiomatization.

Beauty and ugliness areidentical with, respectively, content-bioavailability and content-non-bioavailability.

Chris Farley died because he ran out of material. His lack of self-control and consequent drug overdose being there mere occasion or vehicle for his death. People die when their lives lose meaning.