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.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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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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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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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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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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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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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.
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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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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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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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You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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