Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
JORDAN PETERSONTreat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
JORDAN PETERSONI 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.
JORDAN PETERSONSee the truth. Tell the truth.
JORDAN PETERSONQuestion for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
JORDAN PETERSONWhen the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
JORDAN PETERSONWe 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.
JORDAN PETERSONYou 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.
JORDAN PETERSONNietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
JORDAN PETERSONCompare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
JORDAN PETERSONBut 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.
JORDAN PETERSONDon’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
JORDAN PETERSONYou can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
JORDAN PETERSONIt’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
JORDAN PETERSONBeauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
JORDAN PETERSONYou don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
JORDAN PETERSONAlways place your becoming above your current being.
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