It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
JORDAN PETERSONUntruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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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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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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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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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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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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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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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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