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.
JORDAN PETERSONIt is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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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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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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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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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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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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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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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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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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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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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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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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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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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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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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It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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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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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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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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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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