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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.

Jordan Peterson

Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Fall Reality World
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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Danger Existence Ideas Knowledge Mindset Power True
Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Language One Liner
Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Beautiful Death Philosophy Shame Strength Weakness
So, 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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Knowledge Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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Act Choice Pay Philosophy Poison Yourself
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
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Children Difficult Forever Friendship Learning
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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Act Life Live Possible Value
Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Dream Light Philosophy Reason Travel
Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Deep Man Nature Perspective Woman
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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Born Death Destruction Force Learning
And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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Danger Deep Man Thinking Weakness Yourself
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness World
There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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Danger Goodness Gratitude Protection Reality Victim

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