Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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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 may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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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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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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