Quotes from Jordan B. Peterson

There is no evidence that the importance of friendship declines in any manner with age.* All causes of mortality appear to be reduced among adults with high-quality social networks, even when general health status is taken into consideration.

people get unbelievably upset when you poke them in the axioms

The sense of meaning is an indicator that you are on that path.

The ancient Jews always blamed themselves when things fell apart. They acted as if God's goodness—the goodness of reality—was axiomatic, and took responsibility for their own failure. That's insanely responsible. But the alternative is to judge reality as insufficient, to criticize Being itself, and to sink into resentment and the desire for revenge.

However, people are often willing to produce a lot of collateral damage if they can retain their theory.

have seen university students, particularly those in the humanities, suffer genuine declines in their mental health from being philosophically berated by such defenders of the planet for their existence as members of the human species. It's worse, I think, for young men. As privileged beneficiaries of the patriarchy, their accomplishments are considered unearned.

Interestingly enough, there is some evidence that it is the provision of social support, as much or more than its receipt, that provides these protective benefits (and, somewhat unsurprisingly, that those who give more tend to receive more).9 Thus, it truly seems that it is better to give than to receive.

It's a good thing, not a selfish thing, to choose people who are good for you.

You are not morally obliged to support someone who is making the world a worse place. Quite the opposite. You should choose people who want things to be better, not worse. It's a good thing, not a selfish thing, to choose people who are good for you. It's appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.

próxima vez que se encontraran en una discusión: «Detén la discusión un momento e introduce esta regla: "Cada persona puede decir lo que piensa solo después de repetir las ideas y sentimientos de la persona que acaba de hablar de forma minuciosa, con una formulación que esa persona apruebe"».

lies warp the structure of Being. Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.

Chaos is where we are when we don't know where we are, and what we are doing when we don't know what we are doing. It is, in short, all those things and situations we neither know nor understand

Humanity, in toto, and those who compose it as identifiable people deserve some sympathy for the appalling burden under which the human individual genuinely staggers; some sympathy for subjugation to mortal vulnerability, tyranny of the state, and the depredations of nature.

God is dead," said Nietzsche. "God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us?

Así, las emociones negativas, por desagradables que resulten, nos protegen. Sentimos dolor, miedo, vergüenza y asco, y así evitamos sufrir daños. Y se trata de sentimientos que solemos sentir a menudo. De hecho, sentimos más emoción negativa ante una pérdida de un valor determinado que la positiva que experimentamos si conseguimos algo de ese mismo valor. El dolor es más contundente que el placer y la ansiedad, más que la esperanza.

YOU GET A GOOD COMBINATION OF RESENTMENT AND ARROGANCE GOING YOU CAN BE SURE THAT YOU'LL END UP IN SOMETHING THAT IS PRETTY MUCH INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM HELL AND ALSO THAT FEELS LIKE IT LASTS FOR AN ETERNITY...

Only tolerance will provide social cohesion between different groups, and save us from harming each other.

An idea has an aim. It wants something. It posits a value structure. An idea believes that what it is aiming for is better than what it has now. It reduces the world to those things that aid or impede its realization, and it reduces everything else to irrelevance. An idea defines figure against ground. An idea is a personality, not a fact.

Have some humility. If you cannot bring peace to your household, how dare you try to rule a city?

Život je patnja. Buddha je to vrlo jasno rekao. Krš?ani to prikazuju slikovito, raspe?em samoga Boga. Židovska vjera obiluje prisje?anjima na tu istinu. Istovjetnost izme?u života i ograni?enja jedna je od primarnih i neizbježnih ?injenica postojanja. Ranjivost našega Bi?a ?ini nas podložnima bolima društvenoga prosu?ivanja, prijezira i neminovna sloma naših tijela.

recomendaba: «Si hay un rifle apoyado en la pared en el primer acto, tiene que dispararse en el segundo. De lo contrario, no pinta nada ahí».

Memory is not a description of the objective past. Memory is a tool. Memory is the past's guide to the future. If you remember that something bad happened, and you can figure out why, then you can try to avoid that bad thing happening again.

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we speed the natural deterioration of great things through blindness, inaction and deceit. Without attention, culture degenerates and dies, and evil prevails.