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 psychological cost of something is not intuitive.
We're adapted for voluntary discomfort.
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
Resentment is like taking poison and hoping it will kill your enemies.
The idea that truth is relative is the most destructive idea there is.
Happiness is a byproduct of a life well-lived.
You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price to pay.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Culture is a nest in which children develop.
Aim to be the person upon whom nothing ill can be spoken.
Do not do what you hate.
The ongoing pursuit of truth is the only real wisdom.
Make friends with people who want the best for you.
Tell the truth – or, at least, don't lie.
It's better to live narrowly than to live falsely.
Clean up your room.
There is no hell like the one you've already created for yourself.
The truth is a terrible weapon.
It is better to be a good person than a bad one.
Contemporaries of Jordan Peterson
Other Psychologys born within 50 years of Jordan Peterson (1962).