Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
JORDAN PETERSONIn order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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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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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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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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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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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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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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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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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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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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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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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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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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