Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
JORDAN PETERSONWhen the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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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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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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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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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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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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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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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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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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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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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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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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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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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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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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