Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
JORDAN PETERSONIt is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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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.
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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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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 you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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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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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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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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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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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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Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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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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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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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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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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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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