Quotes from Jordan B. Peterson

Inopportune questioning can confuse, without enlightening, as well as deflecting you from action.

partir de ese punto, desarrollé mis principales conclusiones morales. Apunta hacia arriba. Presta atención. Arregla lo que puedas arreglar. No seas arrogante. Esfuérzate por ser humilde, porque el orgullo totalitario se manifiesta en la intolerancia, la opresión, la tortura y la muerte.

By taking responsibility, we can find a meaningful path, improve our personal lot psychologically, and make what is intolerably wrong genuinely better. Thus, we can have our cake and eat it, too.

Additionally, the fact that religious ideas are capable of uniting vast numbers of people under a single moral umbrella (although such ideas can divide across sects, as well) also indicates something universal calling from within.

The use of single terms implicitly hypersimplifies what are in fact extraordinarily diverse and complex phenomena (that masked complexity is part of the reason that the terms come to carry so much emotional weight).

Self-love is the only antidote to the chaos of existence. And if you don't love and care for yourself and your own needs, you will cause unnecessary suffering both for yourself and others.

Go to sleep properly, and peaceably, so that your parents can have a private life and not resent your existence.

Cuando la estructura de una institución se ha vuelto corrupta -sobre todo de acuerdo a sus propios principios- criticarla es un acto de amistad.

The idea that life is suffering is a relatively universal truism of religious thinking. This is the first of the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism as well as a key Hindu concept.

Why avoid, when avoidance necessarily and inevitably poisons the future? Because the possibility of a monster lurks underneath all disagreements and errors. Maybe the fight you are having (or not having) with your wife or your husband signifies the beginning of the end of your relationship. Maybe your relationship is ending because you are a bad person.

The person who is speaking in this manner believes that winning the argument makes him right, and that doing so necessarily validates the assumption-structure of the dominance hierarchy he most identifies with. This is often—and unsurprisingly—the hierarchy within which he has achieved the most success, or the one with which he is most temperamentally aligned. Almost all discussions involving politics or economics unfold in this manner,

parents should understand their own capacity to be harsh, vengeful, arrogant, resentful, angry and deceitful.

Uma personalidade saudável, dinâmica e, acima de tudo, verdadeira, admitirá quando cometeu um erro. Abandonará voluntariamente – ou deixará morrer – perceções, pensamentos e hábitos ultrapassados, olhando-os como impedimentos à continuação do seu crescimento e êxito. Esta alma é a que deixará velhas crenças serem consumidas, muitas vezes de forma dolorosa, para poder voltar a viver e avançar, renovada.

When Marxism was put into practice in the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Cambodia and elsewhere, economic resources were brutally redistributed. Private property was eliminated, and rural people forcibly collectivized. The result? Tens of millions of people died. Hundreds of millions more were subject to oppression rivalling that still operative in North Korea,

Možda spašavate nekoga zato što ste snažna, velikodušna, sre?ena osoba koja želi u?initi pravu stvar. Ali mogu?e je - i, možda, ?ak vjerojatnije - da samo želite usmjeriti pažnju na svoje neisrpive zalihe suosje?anja i dobre volje. (...) Ili možda zato što je lakše izgledati krjeposnim kada stojite pored nekoga posve neodgovorna. Prvo pretpostavite da ?inite najlakšu stvar, a ne onu najtežu.

La transformación de circunstancias -ambientales- como consecuencia de causas puramente naturales constituye la causa más inmediatamente evidente del deterioro de la estabilidad cultural. Una sequía prolongada, inundaciones, terremotos, plagas, -los sucesos más horribles y arbitrarios de la naturaleza- son capaces de convertir en impotentes, de un plumazo, a las sociedades mejor adaptadas.

It's also not for the best that all human corruption is uncritically laid at society's feet. That conclusion merely displaces the problem, back in time.

so I took the benzodiazepines.

standing up straight with your shoulders back is not something that is only physical, because you're not only a body. You're a spirit,

The great difficulty of assessing problems in sufficient detail to understand what is causing them, followed by the equally great difficulty of generating and testing particularized solutions, is sufficient to deter even the stouthearted, let us say, from daring to tackle a true plague of mankind.

because to work means to sacrifice the hypothetical delights of the present for the potential improvement of what lies ahead.

If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master.

We thought it over, and drew a conclusion: The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future. A great idea begins to emerge, taking ever-more-clearly-articulated form, in ever more-clearly-articulated stories: What's the difference between the successful and the unsuccessful? The successful sacrifice. Things get better, as the successful practise their sacrifices.

The soul willing to transform, as deeply as necessary, is the most effective enemy of the demonic serpents of ideology and totalitarianism,