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.
JORDAN PETERSONAnyone 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.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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The 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.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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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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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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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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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
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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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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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