It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
JORDAN PETERSONIt is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
JORDAN PETERSONAlongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
JORDAN PETERSONIt took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
JORDAN PETERSONAnd if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
JORDAN PETERSONIf 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.
JORDAN PETERSONIt is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
JORDAN PETERSONExperience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
JORDAN PETERSONPeople who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
JORDAN PETERSONWhat you aim at determines what you see.
JORDAN PETERSONThe things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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 PETERSONPeople organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
JORDAN PETERSONAnyone 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.
JORDAN PETERSONNietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
JORDAN PETERSONConsult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
JORDAN PETERSONWe cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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