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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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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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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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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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 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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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
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Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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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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There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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