Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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The 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.
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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 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 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.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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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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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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