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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.

Jordan Peterson

Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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Born Death Destruction Force Learning
But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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Dream Failure Live Philosophy
To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Hell Suffering Yourself
That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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People Soul Spiritual
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness World
True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Deep One Liner Thinking True
Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Inspirational Sacrifice Self Love Worth
You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
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Equality Hurt Inspirational Protection Transformation Yourself
To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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Act Life Live Possible Value
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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Born People Reality
If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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Character Lie True Weakness Worth Yourself
So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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Knowledge Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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Goodness Path Philosophy Stay
You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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Act Believe Thinking Yourself

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