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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.

Jordan Peterson

It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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Better Protection Yourself
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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Deserve Destiny Important People Respect Worth Yourself
Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth Yourself
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself
Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Reality Search
Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Beautiful Death Philosophy Shame Strength Weakness
And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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Danger Deep Man Thinking Weakness Yourself
It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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Control Yourself
We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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Goodness Path Philosophy Stay
Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Deep Man Nature Perspective Woman
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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Action Stop Strong Weakness Yourself
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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Life Philosophy Purpose
In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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Heaven Lie Talk Truth
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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Act Believe Thinking Yourself
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Philosophy Soul
Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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Danger Life Truth Yourself
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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Knowledge Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
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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Children Difficult Forever Friendship Learning
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
The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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Avoid Existence Right Secret Yourself
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Language One Liner
True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Deep One Liner Thinking True
If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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Character Lie True Weakness Worth Yourself
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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Change Greatness World
Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Responsible Self Love Yourself

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