You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
JORDAN PETERSONWhen the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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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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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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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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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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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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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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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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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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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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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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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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