Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
JORDAN PETERSONAnd if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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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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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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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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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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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. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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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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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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