Jordan Peterson
Clinical psychologist and cultural commentator
Most quoted
"Order is not enough. You can't just be stable, and secure, and well-regulated. There has to be something else. Chaos is not enough. You can't just be creative, and dynamic, and exploratory, or you'll be dead, or in pieces. The proper place is the boundary between order and chaos."
— from 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
"You are not your own property. You are, in part, the property of your community, and your culture, and your ancestors, and your children. And you have a responsibility to them all. And if you shirk that responsibility, you're going to pay a price. And so are they."
— from 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, 2018
"The individual must conduct his or her life in a manner that requires the rejection of immediate gratification, of natural and perverse desires alike, and the sacrifice of hedonic pleasure itself to the greater goal of spiritual enlightenment."
— from Maps of Meaning, 1999
All quotes by Jordan Peterson (362)
The individual is the locus of spirit, the locus of responsibility.
Chaos is the domain of ignorance itself.
Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient.
Life is suffering. That's clear. There is no more basic, irrefutable truth.
The soul of the individual is the locus of meaning.
Voluntary discomfort is the path to strength.
You should be afraid of the future if you're not preparing for it.
The hero is the individual who confronts the unknown.
Don't underestimate the power of vision.
Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that.
Do not hide unwanted things in the fog.
Abandon ideology.
Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated.
Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant.
Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.
The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability.
If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
Order is not enough. You can't just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
Myth is the precedent for narrative, for story, for history.
To learn is to die voluntarily and be born again, in great ways and small.
Contemporaries of Jordan Peterson
Other Psychologys born within 50 years of Jordan Peterson (1962).