We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
JORDAN PETERSONAlongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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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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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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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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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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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.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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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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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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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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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.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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