451 Quotes by Jordan B. Peterson

Not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, although many do, and many manage it.

If you don’t believe in brick walls, you will still be injured when you run headlong into one.

You are not simply your own possession to torture and mistreat.

Ideologies are simple ideas, disguised as science or philosophy, that purport to explain the complexity of the world and offer remedies that will perfect it. Ideologues are people who pretend they know how to “make the world a better place” before they’ve taken care of their own chaos within.

Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour.

I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.

But a woman should not look after a man, because she must look after children, and a man should not be a child.

Memory is not a description of the objective past. Memory is a tool. Memory is the past’s guide to the future.

Alternatively, perfection might be regarded as the absence of all unnecessary things, and the pleasures of an ascetic life.