Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
JORDAN PETERSONI 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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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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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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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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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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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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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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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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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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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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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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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