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.
JORDAN PETERSONI 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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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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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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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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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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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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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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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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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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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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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 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’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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