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.
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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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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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. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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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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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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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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Much of happiness is hope.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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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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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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