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.
JORDAN PETERSONThe better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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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 can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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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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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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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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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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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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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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