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.
JORDAN PETERSONWhen you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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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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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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