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Jordan Peterson

It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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Control Yourself
Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Beginning Responsible Yourself
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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Existence Thinking Tolerance
A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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Act Failure God Necessary Preparation Sin
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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Game Play Success
Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Emotion Yourself
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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Enough Important Learning Secure
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Motivational Understand Yourself
It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Harm Mental Oneself Virtue
You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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Believe Philosophy Thinking Understand Yourself
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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People Reality Willing
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Philosophy Soul
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Direction World
what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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Limitation Love Person True

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