“Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the great documenter of the slave-labour-camp horrors of the latter, once wrote that the “pitiful ideology” holding that “human beings are created for happiness” was an ideology “done in by the first blow of the work assigner’s cudgel.” — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“There are no innocuous ideologies. They're forms of pathological over simplification and they're also clubs, I mean the kind of clubs that you hit people with as well as the kind that you belong to... the advantage (to me) of… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“There are many systems of interaction between brain, body and social world that can get caught in positive feedback loops. Depressed people, for example,… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“We deserve some respect. You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“people get unbelievably upset when you poke them in the axioms” — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Life is suffering Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated Truth is the handmaiden of love Dialogue is the pathway to truth… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“We must each adopt as much responsibility as possible for individual life, society and the world. We must each tell the truth and repair… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“People are better at filling and properly administering prescription medication to their pets than to themselves. That’s not good. Even from your pet’s perspective,… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“loving your neighbour as yourself.” The first lesson was that neither of these statements has anything to do with being nice. The second was… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“that morality is relative, at best a personal “value judgment.” Relative means that there is no absolute right or wrong in anything;” — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“There are some games you don't get to play unless you are all in.” — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“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… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the great documenter of the slave-labour-camp horrors of the latter, once wrote that the “pitiful ideology” holding that “human beings are created… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Loss of group-centred belief renders life chaotic, miserable, intolerable; presence of group-centred belief makes conflict with other groups inevitable. In the West, we have… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Our behavioral patterns are exceedingly complex, and psychology is a young science. The scope of our behavioral wisdom exceeds the breadth of our explicit… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
