Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
JORDAN PETERSONThe things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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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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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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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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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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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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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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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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