Juan Luis Cordero

“What does this statement mean? It sums up the meaning of Rule I perfectly. If you understand the rules—their necessity, their sacredness, the chaos they keep at bay, how they unite the communities that follow them, the price paid for their establishment, and the danger of breaking them—but you are willing to fully shoulder the responsibility of making an exception, because you see that as serving a higher good (and if you are a person with sufficient character to manage that distinction), then you have served the spirit, rather than the mere law, and that is an elevated moral act. But if you refuse to realize the importance of the rules you are violating and act out of self-centered convenience, then you are appropriately and inevitably damned. The carelessness you exhibit with regard to your own tradition will undo you and perhaps those around you fully and painfully across time.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

“That is the moral of both narratives: follow the rules until you are capable of being a shining exemplar of what they represent, but break them when those very rules now constitute the most dire impediment to the embodiment of their central virtues.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“la política posee dos dimensiones: una vinculada con la polis, el diálogo o el acuerdo, y otra relativa al polemos, a la lucha y al conflicto a fin de cuentas irreductible.”
― Carlos Peña, Pensar el malestar: La crisis de octubre y la cuestión constitucional