Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
JORDAN PETERSONIn Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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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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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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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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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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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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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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