We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
JORDAN PETERSONWomen select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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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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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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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 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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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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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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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