Quotes from Jordan B. Peterson

You no longer have to be frustrated, because you have learned to aim low, and to be patient.

What do you do to avoid conflict, necessary though it may be? What are you inclined to lie about, assuming that the truth might be intolerable? What do you fake?

It is for such reasons that we need to understand the role of art, and stop thinking about it as an option, or a luxury, or worse, an affectation. Art is the bedrock of culture itself. It is the foundation of the process by which we unite ourselves psychologically, and come to establish productive peace with others.

Naše je duševno zdravlje plod kvalitetna uranjanja u društvenu zajednicu, i to u puno ve?oj mjeri nego što smo obi?no svjesni. Netko nas neprestano mora podsje?ati na to da se trebamo ispravno ponašati i razmišljati. Kada skrenemo s toga puta, ljudi kojima je stalo do nas i koji nas vole na razne nas na?ine guraju natrag na stazu. Prema tome, jako je dobro imati takve ljude u blizini

To give is to do what you can to make things better. The good in people will respond to that, and support it, and imitate it, and multiply it, and return it, and foster it, so that everything improves and moves forward.

Se trata de un hecho lo suficientemente importante como para repetirlo: la gente organiza su cabeza conversando. Y si no tienen a nadie para contarle su historia, pierden la cabeza. Son como personas que van acumulando objetos de forma compulsiva y no pueden deshacerse de nada ellas solas. Se requiere el aporte de la comunidad para mantener la integridad de la psique individual o, dicho de otra forma, es necesario todo un pueblo para organizar una sola cabeza.

Conscious human malevolence can break the spirit that even tragedy could not shake.

Pravilo glasi: ''Do?i k nama ?im se uspiješ primjereno ponašati.'' To je vrlo dobra ponuda za dijete, roditelje i društvo. Lako ?ete vidjeti je li vaše dijete uistinu povratilo kontrolu i opet ?e vam se svi?ati, usprkos prijašnjemu ponašanju. Ako ste još uvijek ljuti, možda se dijete nije u potpunosti pokajalo - ili možda trebate u?initi nešto sa svojom sklonosti inatljivosti.

Tyranny grows slowly, and asks us to retreat in comparatively tiny steps. But each retreat increases the possibility of the next retreat. Each betrayal of conscience, each act of silence (despite the resentment we feel when silenced), and each rationalization weakens resistance and increases the probability of the next restrictive move forward.

Face the demands of life voluntarily.

It's the speech people engage in when they attempt to influence and manipulate others. It's what university students do when they write an essay to please the professor, instead of articulating and clarifying their own ideas. It's what everyone does when they want something, and decide to falsify themselves to please and flatter. It's scheming and sloganeering and propaganda.

The Word that produces order from Chaos sacrifices everything, even itself, to God. That single sentence, wise beyond comprehension, sums up Christianity. Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us. In such cases, we might never recover or, if we do, we change a lot.

Un largo periodo de falta de libertad —de adhesión a una estructura interpretativa particular— es necesario para que se desarrolle una mente libre.

You can decide for yourself what truth there might be in that concern after reading this book. :)

Parents are the arbiters of society. They teach children how to behave so that other people will be able to interact meaningfully and productively with them.

algunas personas siguen siendo objeto de abusos porque no responden a la agresión.

Part of moving Beyond Order is knowing when you have such a reason. Part of moving Beyond Order is understanding that your conscience has a primary claim on your action, which supersedes your conventional social duty.

These are all examples of what Sigmund Freud's compatriot, the lesser-known Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler, called "life-lies.

growing might be the most important form of winning.

One of the major contributions of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, The Gulag Archipelago, was his analysis of the direct causal relationship between the pathology of the Soviet prison-work-camp dependent state (where millions suffered and died) and the almost universal proclivity of the Soviet citizen to falsify his own day-to-day personal experience, deny his own state-induced suffering, and thereby prop up the dictates of the rational, ideology-possessed communist system.

Someone living a life-lie is attempting to manipulate reality with perception, thought and action, so that only some narrowly desired and pre-defined outcome is allowed to exist.

is the case that forced redistribution, in the name of utopian equality, is a cure to shame the disease.

We become stronger by voluntarily facing what impedes our necessary progress.

If you act properly, your actions allow you to be psychologically integrated now, and tomorrow, and into the future, while you benefit yourself, your family, and the broader world around you.