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 PETERSONThe 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 PETERSONYou can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
JORDAN PETERSONAnyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
JORDAN PETERSONThe things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
JORDAN PETERSONIf a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
JORDAN PETERSONWhen you have something to say, silence is a lie.
JORDAN PETERSONThat the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
JORDAN PETERSONWe are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
JORDAN PETERSONConsult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
JORDAN PETERSONWomen select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
JORDAN PETERSONWe 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.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
JORDAN PETERSONPerhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
JORDAN PETERSONTreat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
JORDAN PETERSONWhen the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
JORDAN PETERSON