You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
JORDAN PETERSONIf 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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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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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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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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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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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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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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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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