Jordan Peterson Quotes On Love, Success, Truths

Jordan Peterson Quotes On Love, Success, Truths

Jordan Peterson Quotes On Love, Success, Truth, God, Dangerous

Jordan Peterson Quotes:

You can’t just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can’t incite people to crime. There’s all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.

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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.

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If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

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I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

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Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

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That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

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You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

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You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

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The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.

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I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

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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.

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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.

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Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.

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‘Happiness’ is a pointless goal.

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We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

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It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

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If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

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Become aware of your own insufficiency.

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Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

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The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

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No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

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I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

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I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

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It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

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Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

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It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

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I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

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We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

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You may say, ‘Well, dragons don’t exist.’ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‘predator’ and the category ‘dragon’ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.

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One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

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