You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
JORDAN PETERSONWhen the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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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 are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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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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We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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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 can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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