Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
JORDAN PETERSONThe 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.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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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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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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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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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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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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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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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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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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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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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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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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