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Jordan Peterson: top 300 quotes
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Being (n.) is a place of action, not a place of things.
Being (n.) is something more akin to story or drama; lived, subjective experience, as it manifests itself moment to moment in the consciousness of every living person.
Being (n.) is process, not a state; a journey, not a destination; the continual transformation of what you know, through encounter with what you don’t know, rather than the desperate clinging to the certainty that is eternally insufficient in any case.
Love (n.) is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated.
Truth (n.) is an engagement without which your life will degenerate and you will end up embittered and in hell.
Truth (n.) is that which reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word,
Truth (n.) is the handmaiden of love
Happiness (n.) is mostly hope, always to be found in the journey uphill, and not in the fleeting sense of satisfaction awaiting at the next peak
Happiness's (n.) pursuit is a luxury; meaning is that whose pursuit is a moral obligation.
Happiness (n.) is is, in larger part, hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
Man (n.) is a pack animal, a beast of burden. We must each bear a load, to justify our miserable existence.
Woman (n.) is by nature choosiness, and woman's proclivity to say no, more than any other force, has shaped our evolution into the creative, industrious, upright, large-brained (competitive, aggressive, domineering) creatures that we are.
Woman (n.) is nature, and not just symbolically, for she is the gatekeeper to reproductive success, the very definition of nature.
Silence (n.) is a lie if you have something to say
Wisdom (n.) is not in the knowledge you already have, but in the continual search for knowledge.