If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
JORDAN PETERSONThere are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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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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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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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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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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It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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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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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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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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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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