It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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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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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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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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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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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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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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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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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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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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