Jordan Peterson Quotes

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Jordan Peterson

Profession : Psychologist

Birth : June 12, 1962

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Jordan Peterson

The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

Jordan Peterson

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Jordan Peterson

It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.

Jordan Peterson

There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

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The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

Jordan Peterson

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.

Jordan Peterson

Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.

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To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

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The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

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Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

Jordan Peterson

The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that.

Jordan Peterson