To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
JORDAN PETERSONAristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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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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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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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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