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.
JORDAN PETERSONBut 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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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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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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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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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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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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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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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