Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
JORDAN PETERSONBeauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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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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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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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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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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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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What you aim at determines what you see.
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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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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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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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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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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