You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
JORDAN PETERSONTerritory 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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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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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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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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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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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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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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