Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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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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So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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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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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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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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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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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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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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.
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