451 Quotes by Jordan B. Peterson

Art bears the same relationship to society that the dream bears to mental life.

human health is a matter of moral action, perhaps more than it is a matter of anything else

The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.

An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it.

People think they think, but it's not true. It's mostly self-criticism that passes for thinking. True thinking is rare - just like true listening. Thinking is listening to yourself. It's difficult. To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time. Then you have to let those people disagree

When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations—in the depths—it's noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.

The cross is the burden of life. It is a place of betrayal, torture, and death. It is therefore a fundamental symbol of mortal vulnerability. In the Christian drama, it is also the place where vulnerability is transcended, as a consequence of its acceptance. [...] By accepting life’s suffering, therefore, evil may be overcome. The alternative is hell, at least in its psychological form: rage, resentment, and the desire for revenge and destruction.

We become stronger by voluntarily facing what impedes our necessary progress.

If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master.