Jordan Peterson Quotes
“I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.” ―
“The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.” ―
“You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.” ―
“If you can’t understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences.For example, if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you’d like to know why their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves.” ―
“If you don’t say what you think when you kill your unborn self. When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
“If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.” ―
“Women selectmen. That makes them nature because nature is what selects. And you can say “Well it’s only symbolic that women are naturally”, it’s like no, it’s not just symbolic. The woman is the gatekeeper to reproductive success. And you can’t get more like nature than that, in fact, it’s the very definition of nature.” ―
“You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.” ―
“If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you’re constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.” ―
“You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay” ―
Jordan Peterson Quotes On Success
“Can you imagine yourself in 10 years if, instead of avoiding the things you know you should do, you actually did them every single day? That’s powerful.” ―
“Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.” ―
“The way that you make people resilient is by voluntarily exposing them to things that they are afraid of and that make them uncomfortable.” ―
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.” ―
“Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.” ―
“You might be winning but you’re not growing, and growing might be the most important form of winning.” ―
“It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order.” ―
“You must determine where you are going in your life because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with (and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse).” ―
“You have to treat yourself like you matter because if you don’t then you don’t take care of yourself and you become vengeful and cruel and you take it out on people around you and you are not a positive force. None of that is good…you suffer more and so does everyone else around you.” ―
Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. ―
Jordan Peterson Quotes On Life
Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly. ―
The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious. ―
Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open. ―
If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backward. ―
Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption. ―
Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period. ―
It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words. ―
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence. ―
There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men. ―
We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out. ―
Jordan Peterson 12 Rules For Life
“You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.” ―
“Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.” ―
“No tree can grow to Heaven,” adds the ever-terrifying Carl Gustav Jung, psychoanalyst extraordinaire, “unless its roots reach down to Hell.” ―
“So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.” ―
“And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.” ―
“Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.” ―
“In the West, we have been withdrawing from our traditions, religion- and even nation-centered cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.” ―
“To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.” ―
“Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.” ―
“So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.” ―
“Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.” ―
“Always place your becoming above your current being.” ―