451 Quotes by Jordan B. Peterson

How could the world be freed from the terrible dilemma of conflict, on the one hand, and psychological and social dissolution, on the other? The answer was this: through the elevation and development of the individual, and through the willingness of everyone to shoulder the burden of Being and to take the heroic path.

There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.

Aristotle defined the virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.

When the medication causes the disease, a positive feedback loop has been established.

I’m not a fan of Positive Psychology, by the way, because happiness is basically extroversion minus neuroticism, and we knew that 15 years ago.

Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.

It is because of of Freud, Jung, Nietzsche – and Orwell – that I always wonder, “What, then, do you stand against?” whenever I hear someone say, too loudly, “I stand for this!” The question seems particularly relevant if the same someone is complaining, criticizing, or trying to change someone else’s behaviour.

Set your ambitions, even if you are uncertain about what they should be. The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power.

Evil is the force that believes its knowledge is complete.