People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
JORDAN PETERSONYou’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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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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The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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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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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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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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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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