“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
“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
“The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
“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
“If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
“If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
“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 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
“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
“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
“And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
“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
“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 We must each tell the truth and repair what is in disrepair and break down and recreate what is old and outdated.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
“The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
“if you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences—and infer the motivation.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
“If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master.”
― Jordan B. Peterson
“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
"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
"Whether the gods are inside or outside makes very little difference to whether there are gods."
― Jordan B. Peterson