Jordan Peterson
Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.
There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.
It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp.
Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?
To me, ideology is corrupt; it's a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you're an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you're religious, there's a mystery left there.
You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.
You can't go backward in life.
I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.
I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.
You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.
If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I'll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.
If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.
It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.
The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious.
I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.
I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.
I've 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you're not naive after the first few thousand. I've helped people deal with things that most people can't imagine.
The most propagandistic element of 'Frozen' was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.
Become aware of your own insufficiency.
It's in the best interest of the radical left types - best psychological and strategic interest - to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.
The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.
Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.
Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.
You can't just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can't incite people to crime. There's all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.
Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.
All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents.
It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.
I suppose for a very long time I've been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.
Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.
I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.
The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.
My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.
It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.
I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree.
I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.
People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.
The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.
I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.
Everything isn't political.
I don't really regard myself as a political figure.
The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.
I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.
We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.
I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don't know exactly what's going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what's inside of them without being part of them.
Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.
I like working-class people, generally speaking.