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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.

Jordan Peterson

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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Carry Character Development Dream Power Struggle
Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Man Tolerance Truth Worth
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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Deserve Destiny Important People Respect Worth Yourself
When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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Death Politics Sick
Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Improvement Inspirational Place Self Love
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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Act Believe Thinking Yourself
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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Act Choice Pay Philosophy Poison Yourself
The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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Greatness Reality Survive
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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Existence Thinking Tolerance
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Fall Reality World
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Be Yourself Sacrifice Worth
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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Knowledge Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Harm Mental Oneself Virtue
Much of happiness is hope.
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Happiness Hope One Liner
What you aim at determines what you see.
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One Liner Perspective See Yourself

Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.

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