I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
JORDAN PETERSONAristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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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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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
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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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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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