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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.

Jordan Peterson

Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Philosophy Soul
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 can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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Believe Philosophy Thinking Understand Yourself
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Person Yourself
It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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Believe Dream World Yourself
It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Hell Ideas
And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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Danger Deep Man Thinking Weakness Yourself
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
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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Knowledge Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Deep God Value Worth
You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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Choice Deep Pay Yourself
Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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Happiness Hope Philosophy
Much of happiness is hope.
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Happiness Hope One Liner
Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Emotion Yourself
Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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Death Different Life Right
If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Future Inspirational Satisfaction Yourself
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
Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Beginning Responsible Yourself
What you aim at determines what you see.
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One Liner Perspective See Yourself
We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Direction World
A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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Act Failure God Necessary Preparation Sin
It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Care Protection Yourself
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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Carry Character Development Dream Power Struggle
We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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Believe Important Responsibility Truth
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
Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Beautiful Death Philosophy Shame Strength Weakness
The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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Avoid Existence Right Secret Yourself

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