Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
JORDAN PETERSONMuch of happiness is hope.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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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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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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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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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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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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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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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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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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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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