That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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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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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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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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When 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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