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.
JORDAN PETERSONOrder is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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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 must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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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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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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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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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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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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