Jordan Peterson Quotes

Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Person Yourself
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Believe Life Need Yourself
Much of happiness is hope.
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Happiness Hope One Liner
Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Language One Liner
We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Deep God Value Worth
You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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Believe Philosophy Thinking Understand Yourself
Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Responsible Self Love Yourself
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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Death Different Life Right
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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Action Stop Strong Weakness Yourself
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Motivational Understand Yourself
You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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Direction Inspirational Life Yourself
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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Enough Important Learning Secure
I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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Hurt Myself One Liner
It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Hell Ideas
Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Beautiful Death Philosophy Shame Strength Weakness
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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Development Goodness Myself Thinking
Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Experience Lesson Teaching Worst
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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Deserve Destiny Important People Respect Worth Yourself
It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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Happiness Success Yourself
You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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Death Deep Life Time Wisdom
Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Man Tolerance Truth Worth
The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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Avoid Existence Right Secret Yourself
Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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Happiness Hope Philosophy
You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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Choice Deep Pay Yourself
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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People Reality Willing
Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Reality Search

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