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.
JORDAN PETERSONUntruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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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. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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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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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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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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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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