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.
JORDAN PETERSONDreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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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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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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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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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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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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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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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
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