True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
JORDAN PETERSONIdeologies 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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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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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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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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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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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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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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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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