Jordan B. Peterson
insight yourself capacity evil
“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.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
understanding why motive consequences
“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."
― Jordan B. Peterson
purpose of life largest burden bear
“The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
pay price do choose poison consequences
“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.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
fulfill obligations everyday worry future
“If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
say think kill unborn self
“If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
untold generations gratitude bending world reason
“It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
ideologies substitute knowledge dangerous power
“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.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
something say silence lie
“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
compare yourself yesterday someone today
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
learning death change conception chaos reborn destroy
“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.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
tough men dangerous weak capable
“And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
purpose of life being meaningful suffering irrelevant
“The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
responsibility individual society world truth repair
“We must each adopt as much responsibility as possible for individual life, society and the world. We must each tell the truth and repair what is in disrepair and break down and recreate what is old and outdated. It is in this manner that we can and must reduce the suffering that poisons the world. It’s asking a lot. It’s asking for everything.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
successful delay gratification bargain future
“The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
act consequences motivation
“if you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences—and infer the motivation.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
willing fool master
“If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
cild behave properly age four difficult friends
“If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
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normal person classify object creative possibility
"The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities."
― Jordan B. Peterson
gods inside outside difference existence
"Whether the gods are inside or outside makes very little difference to whether there are gods."
― Jordan B. Peterson