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)
Chaos is the domain of possibility.
Order is not enough. You can't just be stable, and secure, and well-regulated, because then you're dead. You have to have one foot in order and the other in chaos.
The highest good is to be found in the adoption of responsibility.
The most profound truths are often the most uncomfortable.
Do not allow yourself to become resentful.
Don't hide things in the fog.
Pay attention.
Be grateful in spite of your suffering.
The greatest tragedy is to have a talent and not use it.
You're going to pay a price for everything you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose not to pay a price. You only get to choose which price you pay.
The truth is what allows you to survive.
To suffer is to be human.
The world is not a safe place, but it is a place where you can be safe if you are careful.
You have a moral obligation to be as competent as you can be.
The purpose of life is to find your own burden and carry it.
You cannot be a good person if you are not a strong person.
The most important thing you can do is to tell the truth, especially when it's difficult.
It is in the most profound depths of suffering that the greatest opportunities for growth lie.
The world reveals itself to you in proportion to your courage.
You have to be a monster to deal with monsters.
Contemporaries of Jordan Peterson
Other Psychologys born within 50 years of Jordan Peterson (1962).