When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
JORDAN PETERSONDare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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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.
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We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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The 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.
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So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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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 to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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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.
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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.
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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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