Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
JORDAN PETERSONDon’t use language instrumentally.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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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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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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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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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 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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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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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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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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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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