Don’t use language instrumentally.
JORDAN PETERSONDreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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