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.
JORDAN PETERSONAlongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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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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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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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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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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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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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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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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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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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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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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