Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
JORDAN PETERSONUntruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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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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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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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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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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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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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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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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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
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Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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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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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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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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