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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!

Jordan Peterson

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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Danger Existence Ideas Knowledge Mindset Power True
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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Development Goodness Myself Thinking
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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Goodness Path Philosophy Stay
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself
Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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Enough Important Learning Secure
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
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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Death Different Life Right
You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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Act Believe Thinking Yourself
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Person Yourself
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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Gratitude History Reason World Yourself
Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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Happiness Life Virtue
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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Believe Philosophy Thinking Understand Yourself
That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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One Liner Poetry
You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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Direction Inspirational Life Yourself
Much of happiness is hope.
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Happiness Hope One Liner

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