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.
JORDAN PETERSONI’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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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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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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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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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.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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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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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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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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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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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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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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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.
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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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The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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