Jordan B. Peterson

“There are many systems of interaction between brain, body and social world that can get caught in positive feedback loops. Depressed people,…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“We deserve some respect. You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“people get unbelievably upset when you poke them in the axioms”

— Jordan B. Peterson

“Life is suffering Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated Truth is the handmaiden of love Dialogue is the pathway…

— 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…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“People are better at filling and properly administering prescription medication to their pets than to themselves. That’s not good. Even from your…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“buttress their physical”

— Jordan B. Peterson

“loving your neighbour as yourself.” The first lesson was that neither of these statements has anything to do with being nice. The…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“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

“There are some games you don't get to play unless you are all in.”

— 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…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the great documenter of the slave-labour-camp horrors of the latter, once wrote that the “pitiful ideology” holding that “human beings…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“Loss of group-centred belief renders life chaotic, miserable, intolerable; presence of group-centred belief makes conflict with other groups inevitable. In the West,…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“Our behavioral patterns are exceedingly complex, and psychology is a young science. The scope of our behavioral wisdom exceeds the breadth of…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“Aristotle defined the virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

“There are no innocuous ideologies. They're forms of pathological over simplification and they're also clubs, I mean the kind of clubs that…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

“one bird, usually the largest, will eventually win—but even the victor may be hurt by the fight. That means a third bird,…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“Every explorer is therefore, by necessity, a revolutionary, and every successful revolutionary is a peacemaker.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

“Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

“Order is the Shire of Tolkien’s hobbits: peaceful, productive and safely inhabitable, even by the naive. Chaos is the underground kingdom of…

— Jordan B. Peterson