Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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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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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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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 are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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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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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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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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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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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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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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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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