We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
JORDAN PETERSONYou 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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Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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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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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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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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