You should be careful, therefore, to live your life fully, and marriage and children and grandchildren, and all the trouble and heartbreak that accom… - Jordan Peterson

Cultivating judgment about the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date. By contrast, our modern relativism begins by asserting that making judgments about how to live is impossible, because there is no real good, and no true virtue (as these too are relative). Thus relativism’s closest approximation to “virtue” is “tolerance.

An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it.

No tree can grow to Heaven,” adds the ever-terrifying Carl Gustav Jung, psychoanalyst extraordinaire, “unless its roots reach down to Hell.