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.
JORDAN PETERSONAssume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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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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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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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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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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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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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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