I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
JORDAN PETERSONThe purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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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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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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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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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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Order 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.
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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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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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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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