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.
JORDAN PETERSONThus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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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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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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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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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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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 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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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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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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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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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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