It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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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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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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