Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
JORDAN PETERSONTreat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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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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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Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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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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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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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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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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