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Quotes About Life, Leadership, Success, Responsibility, Motivation, Inspiration and Relationships
Quotes About Life, Leadership, Success, Responsibility, Motivation, Inspiration and Relationships
Quotes About Life, Leadership, Success, Responsibility, Motivation, Inspiration and Relationships
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1- “The successful among us delay gratification and bargain with the future.”
2- “Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.”
3- “When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
4- “Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.”
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5- “People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.”
6- “Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.”
7- “And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
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8- “If you’re going to be successful you need to be smart, conscientious, and tough.”
9- “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
10- “Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.”
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11- “If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.”
12- “Chaos can be too much.”
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13- “Start to stop doing what you know to be wrong.”
14- “What you aim at determines what you see.”
15- “If you fulfil your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.”
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16- “It’s better to do something badly than to not do it at all.”
17- “Everything you value is a product of unimaginably lengthy developmental processes, personal, cultural, biological.”
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18- “It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.”
19- “Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.”
20- “If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.”
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21- “Face the demands of life voluntarily. Respond to a challenge, instead of bracing for catastrophe.”
22- “There’s some real utility in gratitude.“
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23- “We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.”
24- “The truth is something that burns. It burns off deadwood. And people don’t like having the deadwood burnt off, often because they’re 95 per cent deadwood.”
25- “Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.”
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26- “The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.”
27- “There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.”
28- “To learn is to die voluntarily and be born again, in great ways and small.”
29- “It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order.”
30- “Attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind.”
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31- “You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do.”
32- “Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.”
33- “It takes careful observation, education, reflection, and communication with others, just to scratch the surface of your beliefs.”
34- “To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.”
35- “No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.”
36- “Power is competence.”
37- “Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.”
38- “If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.”
39- “Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated.”
40- “To master a new technology, you have to play with it.”
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41- “Don’t be a slave to stupid rules.”
42- “The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.”
43- “Can you imagine yourself in 10 years if, instead of avoiding the things you know you should do, you actuthem every single day? That’s powerful.”
44- “The way that you make people resilient is by voluntarily exposing them to things that they are afraid of and that make them uncomfortable.”
45- “You might be winning but you’re not growing, and growing might be the most important form of winning.”
46- “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.”
47- You must determine where you are going in your life, because youcannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with (and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse).
48- “You can only find out what you aelieve (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.”
49- “Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.”
50- “In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.”
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51- “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.”
52- “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.”
53- “Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them — at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.”
54- “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.”
55- “In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.”
56- “If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons. If you’re going to stand your ground, you better have your reasons. You better have thought them through. You might otherwise be in for a very hard landing.”
57- “The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.”
58- “Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, ‘He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.”
59- “Abortion is clearly wrong.”
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60- “It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.”
61- “I don’t tell people, ‘You’re okay the way that you are.’ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‘You’re way less than you could be.”
62- “The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.”
63- “Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.”
64- “Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.”
65- “If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.”
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66- “If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you’re constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.”
67- “When should you push back against oppression, despite the danger? When you start nursing secret fantasies of revenge; when your life is being poisoned and your imagination fills with the wish to devour and destroy.”
68- “Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.”
69- “Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects. And you can say “Well it’s only symbolic that women are nature”, it’s like no, it’s not just symbolic. The woman is the gatekeeper to reproductive success. And you can’t get more like nature than that, in fact it’s the very definition of nature.”
70- “No tree can grow to Heaven,” adds the ever-terrifying Carl Gustav Jung, psychoanalyst extraordinaire, “unless its roots reach down to Hell.”
71- “What is your friend: the things you know, or the things you don’t know. First of all, there’s a lot more things you don’t know. And second, the things you don’t know is the birthplace of all your new knowledge! So if you make the things you don’t know your friend, rather than the things you know, well then you’re always on a quest in a sense. You’re always looking for new information in the off chance that somebody who doesn’t agree with you will tell you something you couldn’t have figured out on your own! It’s a completely different way of looking at the world. It’s the antithesis of opinionated.”
72- “If you can’t understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences. For example if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you’d like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves.”
73- “You have to treat yourself like you matter because if you don’t then you don’t take care of yourself and you become vengeful and cruel and you take it out on people around you and you are not a positive force. None of that is good…you suffer more and so does everyone else around you.”
74- “We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.”
75- “Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.”
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76- “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.”
77- “People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand.”
78- “The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.”
79- “You’re not everything you could be, and you know it.”
80- “Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated.”
81- “The poor and stressed always die first, and in greater numbers. They are also much more susceptible to non-infectious diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.”
82- “Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient).”
83- “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.”
84- “The secret to your existence is right in front of you, and it manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but you’re avoiding.”
85- “Make friends with people who want the best for you.”
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86- “You can do an awful lot by writing down what happened to you and thinking it through.”
87- “If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.”
88- “Dialogue is the pathway to truth.”
89- “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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90- “Truth is the handmaiden of love.”
91- “Be grateful in spite of your suffering.”
92- “Whether the gods are inside or outside makes very little difference to whether there are gods.”
93- “Always place your becoming above your current being.”
94- “There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.”
95- “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 honour.”
96- “If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences and infer the motivation.”
97- “Worthlessness is the default condition.”
98- “If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.”
99- “It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.”
100- “To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
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101- “Life is suffering
Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated
Truth is the handmaiden of love
Dialogue is the pathway to truth
Humility is recognition of personal insufficiency and the willingness to learn
To learn is to die voluntarily and be born again, in great ways and small
So speech must be untrammeled
So that dialogue can take place
So that we can all humbly learn
So that truth can serve love
So that suffering can be ameliorated
So that we can all stumble forward to the Kingdom of God”
102- “We deserve some respect. 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. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued. You may therefore have to conduct yourself habitually in a manner that allows you some respect for your own Being—and fair enough. But every person is deeply flawed. Everyone falls short of the glory of God. If that stark fact meant, however, that we had no responsibility to care, for ourselves as much as others, everyone would be brutally punished all the time. That would not be good. That would make the shortcomings of the world, which can make everyone who thinks honestly question the very propriety of the world, worse in every way. That simply cannot be the proper path forward.”
103- “Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth—or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives—they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome in the past. Such people don’t believe that they deserve any better—so they don’t go looking for it. Or, perhaps, they don’t want the trouble of better. Freud called this a “repetition compulsion.” He thought of it as an unconscious drive to repeat the horrors of the past—sometimes, perhaps, to formulate those horrors more precisely, sometimes to attempt more active mastery and sometimes, perhaps, because no alternatives beckon. People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results. It is in this manner that those who fail to learn from the past doom themselves to repeat it. It’s partly fate. It’s partly inability. It’s partly … unwillingness to learn? Refusal to learn? Motivated refusal to learn?”
104- “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. Nonetheless, chaos can be too much. You can’t long tolerate being swamped and overwhelmed beyond your capacity to cope while you are learning what you still need to know. Thus, you need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understood and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering. Then you have positioned yourself where the terror of existence is under control and you are secure, but where you are also alert and engaged. That is where there is something new to master and some way that you can be improved. That is where meaning is to be found.”
105- “The scope of our behavioral wisdom exceeds the breadth of our explicit interpretation. We act, even instruct, and yet do not understand. How can we do what we cannot explain?”
106- “There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.”
107- “Free speech is not just another value. It’s the foundation of Western civilization.”
108- “Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.”
109- “It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp.”
110- “When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.”
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111- “There were some great clinicians in the 20th century – great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius – there’s a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.”
112- “One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!”
113- “The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.”
114- “If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.”
115- “Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.”
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116- “The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.”
117- “It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.”
118- “To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.”
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119- “Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.”
120- “We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.”
121- “Part of the core information that I’ve been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don’t play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let’s say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they’re equally dangerous.”
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122- “The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.”
123- “If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?”
124- “You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.”
125- “The most propagandistic element of ‘Frozen’ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.”
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126- “You may say, ‘Well, dragons don’t exist.’ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‘predator’ and the category ‘dragon’ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.”
127- “As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.”
128- “I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.”
129- “You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.”
130- “Become aware of your own insufficiency.”
131- “I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.”
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132- “If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‘No.’ “
133- “If you’re a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.”
134- “It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.”
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135- “It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.”
136- “I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.”
137- “You can say, ‘Well, isn’t it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine’ – well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn’t matter, because that is how it’s represented. It’s been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can’t change it. It’s not possible. This is underneath everything.”
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138- “You can’t go backward in life.”
139- “You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.”
140- “I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.”
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141- “The only time ‘no’ ever means ‘no’ in the absence of violence is when it is uttered by one civilized person to another.”
142- “I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.”
143- “Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.”
144- “I like working-class people, generally speaking.”
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145- “I’m a practical person. I’m not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.”
146- “I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?.”
147- “Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.”
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148-“It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.”
149- “You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.”
150- “All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.”
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151- “Everything isn’t political.”
152- “You can’t just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can’t incite people to crime. There’s all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.”
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153- “I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.”
154- “The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.”
155- “The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.”
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156- “Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.”
157- “The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.”
158- “Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?”
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159- “I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.”
160- “It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.”
161- “People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.”
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162- “A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it’s actually a being. ‘Harry Potter”s a good example. So Harry’s the hero, right. But he’s tainted with evil. There’s a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It’s well balanced.”
163- “I could hardly sit through ‘Frozen.’ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.”
164- “I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.”
165- “I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.”
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166- “The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.”
167- “It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.”
168- “The book, ’12 Rules For Life,’ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.”
169- “Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.”
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170- “Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.”
171- “I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.”
172- “That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.”
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173- “The right-wingers don’t want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.”
174- “In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.”
175- “There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.”
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176- “I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.”
177- “I’m always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.”
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178- “I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.”
179- “I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.”
180- “My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.”
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181- “It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.”
182- “Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.”
183- “The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.”
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184- “If you can’t even clean up your own room, who the hell are you to give advice to the world?”
185- “You positively need to be occupied with something weighty, deep, profound, and difficult.”
186- “What’s the difference between the successful and the unsuccessful? The successful sacrifice.”
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187-“To decide to move forward courageously into the land of the unknown. That’s one of the secrets to a good life.”
188- “It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world — a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one — is to fix yourself.”
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189-“You need to determine how to act toward yourself so that you are most likely to become and to stay a good person.”
190- “You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself.”
191- “We must each adopt as much responsibility as possible for individual life, society and the world.”
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192- “You’re much better off to confront your fears head on than you are to wait and let them find you.”
193- “Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?”
194- “Failure is the price we pay for standards and, because mediocrity has consequences both real and harsh, standards are necessary.”
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195- “The lack of your best hurts everything.”
196- “If you present yourself as defeated, then people will react to you as if you are losing. If you start to straighten up, then people will look at and treat you differently.”
197- “Making your life better means adopting a lot of responsibility, and that takes more effort and care than living stupidly in pain and remaining arrogant, deceitful and resentful.”
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198- “There is no faith and no courage and no sacrifice in doing what is expedient.”
199- “A leader gives articulation to the imagination of the population.”
200- “There’s no quick pathways from smart to wise.”
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201- “Face your fears voluntarily: that’s the cure”
202- “Be precise in your speech. Speech can give structure and re-establish order.”
203- “Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.”
204- “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.”
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205- “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. Nonetheless, chaos can be too much. You can’t long tolerate being swamped and overwhelmed beyond your capacity to cope while you are learning what you still need to know.”
206- “You need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understood and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering.”
207- “Don’t reorganize the state until you have ordered your own experience. Have some humility. If you cannot bring peace to your household, how dare you try to rule a city?”
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208- “When things fall apart, and chaos re-emerges, we can give structure to it, and re-establish order, through our speech. If we speak carefully and precisely, we can sort things out, and put them in their proper place, and set a new goal, and navigate to it — often communally, if we negotiate; if we reach consensus. If we speak carelessly and imprecisely, however, things remain vague. The destination remains unproclaimed. The fog of uncertainty does not lift, and there is no negotiating through the world.”
209- “Life isn’t supposed to be happy or fair. Life is supposed to be meaningful.”
210- “When you don’t know what to do, tell the truth.”
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211- “The meaning of your life may be sufficient to keep the corrupting influence of mortal despair at bay.”
212- “You already know what you know, unless your life is perfect, what you know is not enough.”
213- “Good conversation is the best preparation for proper living.”
214- “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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215- “I will trust you – I will extend my hand to you – despite the risk of betrayal, because it is possible, through trust, to bring out the best in you, and perhaps in me.”
216- “Truth will not come in the guise of opinions shared by others, as the truth is neither a collection of slogans nor an ideology. It will instead be personal.”
217- “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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218- “If your life is not what it could be, try telling the truth. Everyone needs a concrete, specific goal — an ambition, and a purpose — to limit chaos and make intelligible sense of his or her life.”
219- “Perhaps happiness is always to be found in the journey uphill, and not in the fleeting sense of satisfaction awaiting at the next peak.”
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220- “You have to be willing to be a fool to advance.”
221- “Your life becomes meaningful in precise proportion to the depths of the responsibility you are willing to shoulder.”
222- “You have to be willing to lose your life in order to find it.”
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223- “To journey happily may well be better than to arrive.”
224- “Every person is deeply flawed.”
225- “When someone does something you are trying to get them to do, reward them.”
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226- “It is because we are born human that we are guaranteed a good dose of suffering. And chances are, if you or someone you love is not suffering now, they will be within five years, unless you are freakishly lucky.”
227- “People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds.”
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228- “If you will not reveal yourself to others, you cannot reveal yourself to yourself.”
229- “Not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, although many do, and many manage it.”
230- “Sometimes the reason that you’re suffering is because you won’t let go of the thing that’s biting you.”
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231- “You should be a monster, an absolute monster, and then you should learn how to control it.”
232- “If things are not going well for you—well, that might be because, as the most cynical of aphorisms has it, life sucks, and then you die. Before your crisis impels you to that hideous conclusion, however, you might consider the following: Life doesn’t have the problem. You do. At least that realization leaves you with some options. If your life is not going well, perhaps it is your current knowledge that is insufficient, not life itself. Perhaps your value structure needs some serious retooling. Perhaps what you want is blinding you to what else could be. Perhaps you are holding on to your desires, in the present, so tightly that you cannot see anything else — even what you truly need.”
233- “Violence, is no mystery. It’s peace that’s the mystery. Violence is the default. It’s easy. It’s peace that is difficult: learned, inculcated, earned.”
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234- “You might love people despite their limitations, but you also love them because of their limitations.”
235- “I can live with no responsibility whatsoever, but the price I pay is that nothing matters. Or I can reverse it and everything matters, but I have to take the responsibility that is associated with that.”
236- “People think they think, but it’s not true. It’s mostly self-criticism that passes for thinking.”
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237- “That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.”
238- “Don’t practice what you don’t want to become. You’re going to pay a price for everything you do and everything you don’t do.”
239- “Maybe it’s not the world that’s at fault. Maybe it’s you. Can you imagine yourself in 10 years if, instead of avoiding the things you know you should do, you actually did them every single day? That’s powerful.”
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240- “What would the world be like if people stopped avoiding the things they knew they should do?”
241- “You should never give up the better that resides within for the security you already have — and certainly not when you have already caught a glimpse, an undeniable glimpse, of something beyond.”
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242- “Wish upon a star, and then act properly, in accordance with that aim.”
243- “With life no matter what you do, you are all in. This is going to kill you. You might as well play the most magnificent game you can. Because do you have anything better to do?”
244- “Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.”
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245- “It’s all very well to think the meaning of life is happiness, but what happens when you’re unhappy? Happiness is a great side effect. When it comes, accept it gratefully. But it’s fleeting and unpredictable.”
246- “People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results.”
247- “If you remember that something bad happened, and you can figure out why, then you can try to avoid that bad thing happening again. That’s the purpose of memory. It’s not to remember the past. It’s to stop the same damn thing from happening over and over.”
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248- “Truth is the ultimate, inexhaustible natural resource. It’s the light in the darkness.”
249- “Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.”
250- “Did what I want happen? No. Then my aim or my methods were wrong. I still have something to learn.” That is the voice of authenticity. “Did what I want happen? No. Then the world is unfair. People are jealous, and too stupid to understand. It is the fault of something or someone else.” That is the voice of inauthenticity.”
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251- “It isn’t precisely that people will fight for what they believe. They will fight, instead, to maintain the match between what they believe, what they expect, and what they desire.”
252- “Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance”
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253- “True thinking is rare—just like true listening.”
254- “Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.”
255- “Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.”
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256- “If your life is not what it could be, try telling the truth. If you cling desperately to an ideology, or wallow in nihilism, try telling the truth. If you feel weak and rejected, and desperate, and confused, try telling the truth. In paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.”
257- “The truth is a terrible thing, but not when you compare it with falsehood.”
258- “You don’t tend to learn unless you’re forced to learn and what you tend to learn by force are difficult lessons.”
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259- “If you’re going to speak effectively you have to know way more than you’re talking about.”
260- “We cannot navigate, without something to aim at, and while we are in this world, we must always navigate.”
261- “Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.”
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262- “Say what you mean, so that you can find out what you mean. Act out what you say, so you can find out what happens. Then pay attention. Note your errors. Articulate them. Strive to correct them. That is how you discover the meaning of your life.”
263- “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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264- “When you explore boldly, when you voluntarily confront the unknown, you gather information and build your renewed self out of that information.”
265- “If you dare to do the most difficult thing you can conceptualize your life will work out better than it will if you do anything.”
266- “Take aim against a sea of troubles.”
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267- “When life suddenly reveals itself as intense, gripping, and meaningful; when time passes and you’re so engrossed in what you’re doing you don’t notice—it is there and then that you are located precisely on the border between order and chaos.”
268- “These little things that are right in front of us, they’re not little.”
269- “There is no faith and no courage and no sacrifice in doing what is expedient.”
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270- “Put the things you can control in order. Repair what is in disorder, and make what is already good better.”
271- “When you decide to learn about your faults, so that they can be rectified, you open a line of communication with the source of all revelatory thought.”
272- “The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.”
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273- “Thus, you need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understood and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering. Then you have positioned yourself where the terror of existence is under control and you are secure, but where you are also alert and engaged.”
274- “Dress like the person you want to be. Sometimes you have to act out the person you want to be before you become it.”
275- “If you stand still you fall backwards, you cannot stand still, because the world moves away from you if you stand still. And there is no stasis. There is only backwards.”
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276- “It’s easier to put off until tomorrow what needs to be done today, and drown the upcoming months and years in today’s cheap pleasures.”
277- “It might even be time to sacrifice what you love best, so that you can become who you might become, instead of staying who you are.”
278- “Anything that you let win grows. Don’t practice what you don’t want to become.”
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279- “If you can think and speak and write, you are absolutely deadly, nothing can get in your way.”
280- “A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has it under voluntary control.”
281- “In virtually every freedom that you have in life, that’s true freedom, is purchased at the price of discipline.”
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282- “If you stop talking to people who aren’t listening to you and start watching them instead, they will tell you what they’re up to.”
283- “If you surround yourself with people who support your upward aim, they will not tolerate your cynicism and destructiveness. They will instead encourage you when you do good for yourself and others and punish you carefully when you do not.”
284- “You have to articulate your own principles, so that you can defend yourself against others’ taking inappropriate advantage of you, and so that you are secure and safe while you work and play.”
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285- “Friendship is a reciprocal arrangement.”
286- “We outsource the problem of sanity. People remain mentally healthy not merely because of the integrity of their own minds, but because they are constantly being reminded how to think, act, and speak by those around them.”
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287- “Here’s something to consider: If you have a friend whose friendship you wouldn’t recommend to your sister, or your father, or your son, why would you have such a friend for yourself? You might say: out of loyalty. Well, loyalty is not identical to stupidity. Loyalty must be negotiated, fairly and honestly.”
288- “Be good company when something fun is happening, so that you’re invited for the fun.”
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289- “Women’s proclivity to say no, more than any other force, has shaped our evolution into the creative, industrious, upright, large-brained creatures that we are.”
290- “Your life isn’t margaritas on a beach in Jamaica. That happens now and then. Those are exceptions. Your life is how your wife greets you at the door when you come home every day, ’cause that’s like 10 minutes a day. Your life is how you treat each other over the breakfast table, ’cause that’s an hour and a half or an hour every single day. You get those mundane things right, those things you do every day. You concentrate on them and you make them pristine. It’s like you got 80% of your life put together. These little things that are right in front of us, they’re not little.”
291- “It takes careful observation, and education, and self-reflection, and communication with others, just to scratch the surface of your beliefs.”
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292- “Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth—or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives—they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome in the past. Such people don’t believe that they deserve any better—so they don’t go looking for it. Or, perhaps, they don’t want the trouble of better.”
293- “Confront the chaos of being. Take aim against a sea of troubles. Specify your destination, and chart your course. Admit to what you want. Tell those around you who you are. Narrow and gaze attentively, and move forward, forthrightly. Be precise in your speech.”
294- “We require rules, standards, values— alone and together. We’re pack animals, beasts of burden. We must bear a load, to justify our miserable existence.”
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295- “It is necessary to be strong in the face of death, because death is intrinsic to life. It is for this reason that I tell my students: aim to be the person at your father’s funeral that everyone, in their grief and misery, can rely on. There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity.”
296- “You should be humble enough to understand that if you can’t order your own life, you shouldn’t be trying to order anything more complicated than that.”
297- “If you over-coddle people, if you protect them from everything that’s sharp, you make them dull and narcissistic.”
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298- “The soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being, and that the willingness to take on that responsibility is identical to the decision to live a meaningful life.”
299- “If you tell enough lies, often enough, the truth will become entirely hidden from you, and then you are in hell.”
300- “Maybe your misery is the weapon you brandish in your hatred for those who rose upward while you waited and sank. Maybe your misery is your attempt to prove the world’s injustice, instead of the evidence of your own sin, your missing of the mark, your conscious refusal to strive and live.”
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301- “Rejection of the unknown is tantamount to identification with the devil.”
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