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What you aim at determines what you see.

Jordan Peterson

But 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.
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Dream Failure Live Philosophy
You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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Death Deep Life Time Wisdom
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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Change Greatness World
You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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Act Choice Pay Philosophy Poison Yourself
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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Goodness Path Philosophy Stay
Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Dream Light Philosophy Reason Travel
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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Born Death Destruction Force Learning
True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Deep One Liner Thinking True
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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Danger Existence Ideas Knowledge Mindset Power True
Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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Happiness Life Virtue
what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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Limitation Love Person True
Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Man Tolerance Truth Worth
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness World
One 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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Children Family Necessary Problem Rich
To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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Act Life Live Possible Value
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life

What you aim at determines what you see.

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