The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
JORDAN PETERSONYou should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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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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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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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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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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We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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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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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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