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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.

Jordan Peterson

Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth Yourself
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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Existence Thinking Tolerance
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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Equality Hurt Inspirational Protection Transformation Yourself
Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Dream Light Philosophy Reason Travel
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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Development Goodness Myself Thinking
Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Man Tolerance Truth Worth
You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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Act Choice Pay Philosophy Poison Yourself
Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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Care Worth Yourself
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Born Kill Thinking Yourself
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness World
True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Deep One Liner Thinking True
If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
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Children Difficult Forever Friendship Learning
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Philosophy Soul
When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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Death Politics Sick
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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Act Life Live Possible Value
We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Fall Reality World
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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Happiness Hope Philosophy
You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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Act Believe Thinking Yourself
It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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Better Protection Yourself
There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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Danger Goodness Gratitude Protection Reality Victim
But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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Dream Failure Live Philosophy
Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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Happiness Life Virtue
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Improvement Perfection Savage Yourself
Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Improvement Inspirational Place Self Love
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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Knowledge Philosophy Wisdom Yourself

Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.

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