Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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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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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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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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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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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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 don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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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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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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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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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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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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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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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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