To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
JORDAN PETERSONQuestion for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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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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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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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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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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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.
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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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The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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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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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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