If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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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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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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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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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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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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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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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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