And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
JORDAN PETERSONA hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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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’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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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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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.
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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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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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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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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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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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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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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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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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