Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
JORDAN PETERSONConsult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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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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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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