Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
JORDAN PETERSONOrder is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
JORDAN PETERSONYou should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
JORDAN PETERSONQuestion for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
JORDAN PETERSONIt is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
JORDAN PETERSONAssume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
JORDAN PETERSONYou must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
JORDAN PETERSONYou can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
JORDAN PETERSONIf society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
JORDAN PETERSONIt’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
JORDAN PETERSONYou don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
JORDAN PETERSONTruth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
JORDAN PETERSONWe are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
JORDAN PETERSONNietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
JORDAN PETERSONThe better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
JORDAN PETERSONWhat you aim at determines what you see.
JORDAN PETERSON