When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
JORDAN PETERSONYou can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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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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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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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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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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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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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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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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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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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.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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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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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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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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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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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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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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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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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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