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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.

Jordan Peterson

I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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Development Goodness Myself Thinking
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
Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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Danger Life Truth Yourself
If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Future Inspirational Satisfaction Yourself
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Be Yourself Sacrifice Worth
If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
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Children Difficult Forever Friendship Learning
Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Man Tolerance Truth Worth
If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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Born People Reality
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 suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Hell Suffering Yourself
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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Act Believe Thinking Yourself
Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Dream Light Philosophy Reason Travel
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
Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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Choice Destiny Mystery Ourselves Potential Reality Transform 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
Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Beginning Responsible Yourself
We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Deep God Value Worth
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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Life Philosophy Purpose
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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Different Freedom Life Strength Worth
You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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Deserve Destiny Important People Respect Worth Yourself
In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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Heaven Lie Talk Truth
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
Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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Happiness Hope Philosophy
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
Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Inspirational Sacrifice Self Love Worth
Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Condition Worth

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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