You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
JORDAN PETERSONStop 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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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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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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So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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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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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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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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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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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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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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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 may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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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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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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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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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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