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.
JORDAN PETERSONThat the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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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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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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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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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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