Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
JORDAN PETERSONConsult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
JORDAN PETERSONEvery bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
JORDAN PETERSONBeauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
JORDAN PETERSONOrder is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
JORDAN PETERSONWhat you aim at determines what you see.
JORDAN PETERSONWorthlessness is the default condition.
JORDAN PETERSONAnd if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
JORDAN PETERSONIt is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
JORDAN PETERSONAnyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
JORDAN PETERSONDon’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
JORDAN PETERSONThe successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
JORDAN PETERSONWhen you have something to say, silence is a lie.
JORDAN PETERSONAssume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
JORDAN PETERSONwhat can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
JORDAN PETERSONYou remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
JORDAN PETERSONUntruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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