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.
JORDAN PETERSONPeople who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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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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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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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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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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The 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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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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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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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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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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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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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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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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