Quotes from Jordan B. Peterson

La memoria no es una descripción del pasado objetivo, sino una herramienta. La memoria es la guía del pasado para el futuro.

Thinkers powerfully influenced by Marx and overwhelmingly influential in much of the academy today (such as Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida) modified the Marxist simplification essentially by replacing "economics" with "power"—as if power were the single motivating force behind all human behavior (as opposed, say, to competent authority, or reciprocity of attitude and action).

Look for your inspiration to the victorious lobster,

Why refuse to specify? Because while you are failing to define success (and thereby rendering it impossible) you are also refusing to define failure, to yourself, so that if and when you fail you won't notice, and it won't hurt.

STAND UP STRAIGHT WITH YOUR SHOULDERS BACK

The great majority of us cannot listen; we find ourselves compelled to evaluate, because listening is too dangerous. The first requirement is courage, and we do not always have it.

The Oedipal mother makes a pact with herself, her children, and the devil himself. The deal is this: "Above all, never leave me.

You step forward to take your place in the dominance hierarchy, and occupy your territory, manifesting your willingness to defend, expand and transform it.

Those who break the rules ethically are those who have mastered them first and disciplined themselves to understand the necessity of those rules, and break them in keeping with the spirit rather than the letter of the law.

When you dare aspire upward, you reveal the inadequacy of the present and the promise of the future. Then you disturb others,

Ir a lo fácil o decir la verdad no son solamente dos opciones distintas. Son dos caminos diferentes que atraviesan la vida. Son dos formas totalmente distintas de existir.

brilliantly & terribly

If you will not reveal yourself to others, you cannot reveal yourself to yourself.

Las reglas claras y la disciplina apropiada ayudan al niño, a la familia y a la sociedad a establecer, mantener y expandir el orden, que es todo lo que nos protege del caos y de los terrores del inframundo, allí donde todo es incierto, donde todo provoca ansiedad, desesperanza y depresión. No hay mejor regalo que unos padres responsables y valientes. No permitas que tus hijos hagan cosas que detestes.

The attraction of doing so is, however, obvious: simplicity, ease, and the illusion of mastery (which can have exceptionally useful psychological and social consequences, particularly in the short term)—and, let us not forget, the frequent discovery of a villain, or set of villains, upon which the hidden motivations for the ideology can be vented.

All she—he—they—or we—must do to ensure such an outcome is nothing: don't notice, don't react, don't attend, don't discuss, don't consider, don't work for peace, don't take responsibility. Don't confront the chaos and turn it into order—just wait, anything but naïve and innocent, for the chaos to rise up and engulf you instead.

To accept the truth means to sacrifice—and if you have rejected the truth for a long time, then you've run up a dangerously large sacrificial debt.

Not quite manic, but his idling speed revved high.

For the big lie, you first need the little lie. The little lie is, metaphorically speaking, the bait used by the Father of Lies to hook his victims. The human capacity for imagination makes us capable of dreaming up and creating alternative worlds. This is the ultimate source of our creativity. With that singular capacity, however, comes the counterpart, the opposite side of the coin: we can deceive ourselves and others into believing and acting as if things are other than we know they are.

No te enfrentes al caos para transformarlo en orden, sino que limítate a esperar, sin ningún asomo de ingenuidad o inocencia, a que el caos se desborde y te arrastre.

what is terrible in actuality often pales in significance compared to what is terrible in imagination.

The conversation of mutual exploration, by contrast, requires people who have decided that the unknown makes a better friend than the known.

You should strive for brevity, which is concise and efficient expression, as well as beauty, which is the melodic or poetic aspect of your language. [...] That state of mind is partly aesthetic. You have to be trying to produce something of worth, beauty and elegance. Do you plan to settle for ugly and uncouth? Do you want to destroy, instead of build?

TREAT YOURSELF LIKE SOMEONE YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HELPING