You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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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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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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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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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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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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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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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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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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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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