That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
JORDAN PETERSONThere are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
-
-
There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
JORDAN PETERSON -
If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
JORDAN PETERSON -
Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
JORDAN PETERSON -
You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
JORDAN PETERSON -
When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
JORDAN PETERSON -
what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
JORDAN PETERSON -
It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
JORDAN PETERSON -
You 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 PETERSON -
You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
JORDAN PETERSON -
When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
JORDAN PETERSON -
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
JORDAN PETERSON -
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
JORDAN PETERSON -
Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
JORDAN PETERSON -
I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
JORDAN PETERSON -
People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
JORDAN PETERSON