Anyone 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 PETERSONIf 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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You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell 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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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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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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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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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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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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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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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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