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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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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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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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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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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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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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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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