Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
JORDAN PETERSONBeauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
JORDAN PETERSONWho cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
JORDAN PETERSONYou 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.
JORDAN PETERSONI 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 PETERSONWe cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
JORDAN PETERSONAnd if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
JORDAN PETERSONThe 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.
JORDAN PETERSONWorthlessness is the default condition.
JORDAN PETERSONIt’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
JORDAN PETERSONTrue thinking is rare – just like true listening.
JORDAN PETERSONYou should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
JORDAN PETERSONThe 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.
JORDAN PETERSONIf 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.
JORDAN PETERSONPet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
JORDAN PETERSONBut we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
JORDAN PETERSON