Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
JORDAN PETERSONStop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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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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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Order 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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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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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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What you aim at determines what you see.
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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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The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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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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Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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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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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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