And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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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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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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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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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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