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 PETERSONIt’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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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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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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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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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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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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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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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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You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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