People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
JORDAN PETERSONOld age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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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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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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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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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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