Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
JORDAN PETERSONThat the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine 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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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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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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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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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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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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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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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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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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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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