We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
JORDAN PETERSONBeauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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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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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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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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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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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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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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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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You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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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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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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