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.
JORDAN PETERSONIt’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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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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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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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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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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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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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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Much of happiness is hope.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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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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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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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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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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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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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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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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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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