You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
JORDAN PETERSONYou must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
JORDAN PETERSONWe are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
JORDAN PETERSONThere 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.
JORDAN PETERSONWe 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.
JORDAN PETERSONDare, 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.
JORDAN PETERSONMuch of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
JORDAN PETERSONBeauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
JORDAN PETERSONNietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
JORDAN PETERSONOne of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
JORDAN PETERSONYou can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
JORDAN PETERSONIt’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
JORDAN PETERSONConsult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
JORDAN PETERSONWe require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
JORDAN PETERSONIt’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
JORDAN PETERSONTo 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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