If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
JORDAN PETERSONIt 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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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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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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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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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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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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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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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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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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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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