Quotes from Jordan B. Peterson

not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise,

you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place." No one standing still can triumph, no matter how well constituted.

Why remain vague when it makes life stagnant

The single axioms of the ideologically possessed are gods, served blindly by their proselytizers.

Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don't have and undervaluing what you do. There's some real utility in gratitude.

If you say no, early in the cycle of oppression, and you mean what you say (which means you state your refusal in no uncertain terms and stand behind it), then the scope for oppression on the part of the oppressor will remain properly bounded and limited. The forces of tyranny expand inexorably to fill the space made available for their existence.

You must remove the beam in your own eye, before you concern yourself with the mote in your brother's.

Without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions - and there's nothing freeing about that.

Proper Being is process, not a state; a journey, not a destination. It's the continual transformation of what you know, through encounter with what you don't know, rather than the desperate clinging to the certainty that is eternally insufficient in any case.

Nietzsche writes, "The Christians have never practiced the actions Jesus prescribed them; and the impudent garrulous talk about the 'justification by faith' and its supreme and sole significance is only the consequence of the Church's lack of courage and will to profess the works Jesus demanded."144 Nietzsche was, indeed, a critic without parallel.

El orden puede acabar resultando excesivo, y eso no es bueno, pero el caos puede anegarlo todo y ahogarnos, lo que tampoco es bueno.

Si la Madre Naturaleza no se mostrara tan dedicada a acabar con nosotros, nos resultaría mucho más fácil vivir en total armonía con lo que dispone.

No eres de forma alguna tan solo lo que ya sabes, también eres todo lo que podrías saber si así lo quisieras.

No purpose? Then, no positive emotion, as most of what drives us forward with hope intact is the experience of approaching something we deeply need and want. And worse, when we are without purpose: chronic, overwhelming anxiety, as focused purpose constrains what is otherwise likely to be the intolerable chaos of unexploited possibility and too much choice.

Have some humility. Clean up your bedroom. Take care of your family. Follow your conscience. Straighten up your life. Find something productive and interesting to do and commit to it. When you can do all that, find a bigger problem and try to solve that if you dare. If that works, too, move on to even more ambitious projects. And, as the necessary beginning to that process . . . abandon ideology.

It is better to presume ignorance and invite learning than to assume sufficient knowledge and risk the consequent blindness.

Artists are the people who stand on the frontier of the transformation of the unknown into knowledge.

Maybe your misery is your attempt to prove the world's injustice, instead of the evidence of your own sin, your own missing of the mark, your conscious refusal to strive and to live.

you have positioned yourself where the terror of existence is under control and you are secure, but where you are also alert and engaged. That is where there is something new to master and some way that you can be improved. That is where meaning is to be found.

They are indicative of the implicit and oft-agonizing tragedies of insufficiency, privation, brute necessity and subjugation to illness and death that simultaneously define and plague existence.

Ya estábamos compitiendo por una posición antes de tener piel, manos, pulmones o huesos. Así, hay pocas cosas más naturales que la cultura. Las jerarquías de dominación son más antiguas que los árboles.

Long ago, in the dim mists of time, we began to realize that reality was structured as if it could be bargained with. We learned that behaving properly now, in the present—regulating our impulses, considering the plight of others—could bring rewards in the future, in a time and place that did not yet exist.

Consider the role that creative people play in cities. They are typically starving a bit, because it is virtually impossible to be commercially successful as an artist, and that hunger is partly what motivates them (do not underestimate the utility of necessity).

that the attentive son can restore the vision of his father.