To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
JORDAN PETERSONSo, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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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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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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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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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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