We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
JORDAN PETERSONOld age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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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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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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You 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.
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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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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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