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.
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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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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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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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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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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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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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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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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