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.
JORDAN PETERSONIt’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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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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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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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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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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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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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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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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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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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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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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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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