People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
JORDAN PETERSONMuch of happiness is hope.
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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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But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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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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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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Territory 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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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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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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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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