If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
JORDAN PETERSONWhen existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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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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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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But 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.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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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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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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