Words matter. These are the best Jordan Peterson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.
It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.
In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.
I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.
Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.
I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.
It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.
I like working-class people, generally speaking.
Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.
If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.
Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.
You may say, ‘Well, dragons don’t exist.’ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‘predator’ and the category ‘dragon’ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.
If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‘No.’
If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.
Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.
I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.
I don’t tell people, ‘You’re okay the way that you are.’ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‘You’re way less than you could be.’
Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.
I could hardly sit through ‘Frozen.’ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.
I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.
Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
I’m a practical person. I’m not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.
You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.
To master a new technology, you have to play with it.
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.
The most propagandistic element of ‘Frozen’ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.
When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.
The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.
I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.
If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.
Free speech is not just another value. It’s the foundation of Western civilization.
People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.
There were some great clinicians in the 20th century – great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius – there’s a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.
I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.
You can’t go backward in life.
If you’re a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.
My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.
It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.
Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.
It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
You can’t just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can’t incite people to crime. There’s all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.
It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.
You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.
All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.
