People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
JORDAN PETERSONAlongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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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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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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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 far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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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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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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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.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
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