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.
JORDAN PETERSONIt 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.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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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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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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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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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
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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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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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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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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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