It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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.
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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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Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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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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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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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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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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