Worthlessness is the default condition.
JORDAN PETERSONOne 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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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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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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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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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 must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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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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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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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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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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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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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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