The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
JORDAN PETERSONWomen select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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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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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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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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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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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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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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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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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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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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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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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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