We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
JORDAN PETERSONAristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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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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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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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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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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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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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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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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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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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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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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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