You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
JORDAN PETERSONYou must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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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 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.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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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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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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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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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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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 are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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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.
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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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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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