Quotes from Jordan Peterson

I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them — at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.

There's some real utility in gratitude.

If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.

Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.

The light that you discover in your life is proportionate to the amount of the darkness you are willing to forthrightly confront (from the debate between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek)

To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.

We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate

Because the world is revealed, to an indeterminate degree, through the template of your values. If the world you are seeing is not the world you want, therefore, it's time to examine your values. It's time to rid yourself of your current presuppositions. It's time to let go. It might even be time to sacrifice what you love best, so that you can become who you might become, instead of statiny who you are.

The data on the economic utility of artists is really, really strong. Artists and entrepreneurs are the same people...and of course entrepreneurs are the people who provide all of the vision for the entire capitalist system. They're absolutely necessary. But conservatives tend to be so blind to art that they can't even see that the artists are the ones who drive the economy forward!

You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.

Statistics is not an exact science. It is an investigative technique.

When you have something to say, silence is a lie

Don't compare yourself with other people, compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

anything is possible but probably not that

You must make friends, therefore, with what you don't know, instead of what you know. You must remain awake to catch yourself in the act. You must remove the beam in your own eye, before you concern yourself with the mote in your brother's. And in this way, you strengthen your own spirit, so it can tolerate the burden of existence, and you rejuvenate the state.

Without the proper engagement in truth, your life will degenerate and you will end up embittered and in hell.

The less you know about a topic, the more you overestimate the quality of your knowledge.