Quotes from Jordan B. Peterson

Describí cómo había llegado a la conclusión de que los elementos que constituían el mundo como una obra de teatro eran el orden y el caos, y no elementos materiales.

It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).

Every person is too complex to know themselves completely, and we all contain wisdom that we cannot comprehend.

and is taken home and has rough, violent sex (or even tender, caring sex), then what the hell does she expect?" In other words, I could have told her, in more philosophical terms, that she was Nietzsche's "pale criminal"—the person who at one moment dares to break the sacred law and at the next shrinks from paying the price.

set your house in order

you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place.

To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time.

people depend on constant communication with others to keep their minds organized. We all need to think to keep things straight, but we mostly think by talking.

Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.

This kind of oversimplification and falsification is particularly typical of ideologues. They adopt a single axiom: government is bad, immigration is bad, capitalism is bad, patriarchy is bad. Then they filter and screen their experiences and insist ever more narrowly that everything can be explained by that axiom. They believe, narcissistically, underneath all that bad theory, that the world could be put right, if only they held the controls.

An idea begins to take shape: "I am going to live my life properly. I am going to aim at the good. I am going to aim at the highest good I can possible manage.

After a few days of this degeneration, I decided to take the spoon back. I prepared for war. I set aside sufficient time. A patient adult can defeat a two-year-old, hard as that is to believe. As the saying goes: "Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.

When the aristocracy catches a cold, the working class dies pneumonia.

For the Taoists, meaning is to be found on the border between the ever-entwined pair. To walk that border is to stay on the path of life, the divine Way.

He said he had parents who were desperate anti-social alcoholic addicted friendless and that they didn't want him to leave their home. He was the only relationship they had and he asked what he should do and I told him that he should leave.

Me hicieron falta décadas para entender lo que esto significa, para entender una parte de lo que significa. Viene a ser así: una vez que eres consciente de tu propia vulnerabilidad, entiendes la naturaleza de la vulnerabilidad humana en general. Entiendes lo que significa el dolor. Y una vez que entiendes este tipo de sentimientos en ti mismo y cómo se producen, entiendes cómo suscitarlos en otras personas.

is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them.

Your resolution trumps your nihilism and despair.

Set your ambitions, even if you are uncertain about what they should be. The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity

people are generally very loath to talk publicly—it is a common fear, often severe enough to interfere with career progression4

Cuando la aristocracia se resfría, como suele decirse, las clases trabajadoras mueren de neumonía.

If you will not reveal yourself to others, you cannot reveal yourself to yourself. That does not only mean that you suppress who you are, although it also means that. It means that so much of what you could be will never be forced by necessity to come forward. This is a biological truth, as well as a conceptual truth.

Materialist social science implied that we could divide the world into facts (which all could observe, and were objective and "real") and values (which were subjective and personal). Then we could first agree on the facts, and, maybe, one day, develop a scientific code of ethics (which has yet to arrive).

Perhaps you should also be positioning yourself for a lateral move—into another job, for example, noting as you may, "This occupation is deadening my soul, and that is truly not for me.