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.
JORDAN PETERSONYou deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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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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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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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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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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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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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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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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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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