When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
JORDAN PETERSONWhen the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
JORDAN PETERSONDon’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
JORDAN PETERSONAlongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
JORDAN PETERSONPeople who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
JORDAN PETERSONMuch of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
JORDAN PETERSONThat’s poetic in its malevolence.
JORDAN PETERSONSometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
JORDAN PETERSONBut we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
JORDAN PETERSONThe things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
JORDAN PETERSONThe 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.
JORDAN PETERSONSee the truth. Tell the truth.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
JORDAN PETERSONYou must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
JORDAN PETERSONIn Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
JORDAN PETERSONThe purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
JORDAN PETERSONWhen 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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