It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
JORDAN PETERSONI’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
-
-
You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
JORDAN PETERSON -
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 PETERSON -
One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
JORDAN PETERSON -
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
JORDAN PETERSON -
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
JORDAN PETERSON -
The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
JORDAN PETERSON -
Don’t use language instrumentally.
JORDAN PETERSON -
If 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 PETERSON -
But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
JORDAN PETERSON -
When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
JORDAN PETERSON -
We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
JORDAN PETERSON -
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
JORDAN PETERSON -
What you aim at determines what you see.
JORDAN PETERSON -
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.
JORDAN PETERSON -
If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
JORDAN PETERSON