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.
JORDAN PETERSONWe cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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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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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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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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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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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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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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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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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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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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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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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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