But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
JORDAN PETERSONExperience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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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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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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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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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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One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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