“Life is suffering Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated Truth is the handmaiden of love Dialogue is the pathway to truth Humility is recognition of personal insufficiency and the willingness to learn To learn is to die… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share
“There are many systems of interaction between brain, body and social world that can get caught in positive feedback loops. Depressed people, for example, can start feeling useless and burdensome, as well as grief-stricken and pained. This makes them withdraw from contact with friends and family. Then the withdrawal makes them more lonesome and isolated, and more likely to feel… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share
“We deserve some respect. You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share
“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 Humility is recognition of personal insufficiency and the willingness to learn To learn is to die voluntarily and be born again, in great ways and small So speech must be untrammeled So that dialogue can take… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share
“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 that both are equations, rather than injunctions. If I am someone’s friend, family member, or lover, then I am morally obliged to bargain as hard on my own behalf as they are on theirs. If I… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share
“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
