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.
JORDAN PETERSONYou cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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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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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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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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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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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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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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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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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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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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People 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.
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