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Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am. James Hillman

Path Later Must Seems Something Onto Sooner Sooner Or Later Particular Call Got Am Us Who

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. Jean Piaget

Mathematics Nothing Logic Structures Linguistic Specialised

Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?' Jean Piaget

About New Come Answer Does How Question Anything Play

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical. Jean Piaget

Intelligence Logical Particularly Without Intelligent Being Whole Activity

One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects. Jean Piaget

Assurance Extreme Striking Finds About Most His Subjects Child Things

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher. Jean Piaget

Knowledge Problem Made Our Point Higher Point Of View Genetic Judged How Psychology Explain Transition Lower Epistemology View Level

With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct. Jean Piaget

During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle. Jean Piaget

Life Education First Few Months Must Imperative Laying Habits Head Taking Becomes Pillow Infant Begin Cradle Etc Manner Why

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior. Jean Piaget

Behavior Purely Individual Between Form Us Intermediate Appears Socialized

I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers. Jean Piaget

Conversation Aim About Something Wrong Underlying Answers Discovering Subjects Questioning Psychiatric After Engage Reasoning Right

These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way. Jonathan Kellerman

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. Jordan Peterson

Life You Struggle Book People Humor Life Is A Pay Hell Live Rules Possible Responsible Moral Noble Very Truthful Trying Explain Serious Elements Why Deepest Level Things Necessary

Become aware of your own insufficiency. Jordan Peterson

Become Own Your Aware

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory. Jordan Peterson

History Women Throughout Idea Were Oppressed Appalling Theory

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period. Jordan Peterson

Period Dependent Ever

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. Jordan Peterson

Lie Hell Lying About Leads Anything Ever

Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization. Jordan Peterson

Value Free Free Speech Civilization Another Western Western Civilization Just Foundation Speech

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. Jordan Peterson

Freedom Technology Gift Wealth Political Opportunity Luxury Our Ancestors Systems Economic Highly Particularly West Surrounds Infrastructure Us Comparatively Functional

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. Jordan Peterson

People Will Some People Think Jobs Trick Some Admit Itself Want

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. Joyce Brothers

Communication Listening Imitation Sincerest Sincerest Form May Form Flattery

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever. Joyce Brothers

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. Joyce Brothers

Success You Yourself Mind Thinking State Want Success Is Start

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men. Karen Horney

Women Men Disappointments Hitherto Represents Psychology Deposit Actually Desires

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