12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Not all sacrifices are of equal quality.

It was in the aftermath of God’s death that the great collective horrors of Communism and Fascism sprang forth (as both Dostoevsky and Nietzsche predicted they would).

Restraining orders work best, however, with the sort of person who would never require a restraining order.

abuse disappears across generations. People constrain its spread. That’s a testament to the genuine dominance of good over evil in the human heart.

how you deal with the overwhelming complexity of the world: you ignore it,

The socialism that soon afterward became so attractive to me as an alternative proved equally insubstantial; with time, I came to understand, through the great George Orwell, that much of such thinking found its motivation in hatred of the rich and successful, instead of true regard for the poor. Besides, the socialists were more intrinsically capi

Parents are the arbiters of society. They teach children how to behave so that other people will be able to interact meaningfully

The Word that produces order from Chaos sacrifices everything, even itself, to God. That single sentence, wise beyond comprehension, sums up Christianity.

not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, although many do, and many manage it.

Go to sleep properly, and peaceably, so that your parents can have a private life and not resent your existence.