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.
JORDAN PETERSONWhen 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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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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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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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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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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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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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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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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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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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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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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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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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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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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