It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
JORDAN PETERSONYou must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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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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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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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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The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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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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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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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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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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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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