Jordan Peterson Quotes

It is far better to render Beings in your car competent than to protect them

I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.

Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?

Your inaction, inertia and cynicism removes from the world that part of you that could learn to quell suffering and make peace.

The lion lying down with the lamb is the idea that is either projected back in time, saying that there was a time, or maybe that there will be a time, when the horrors of life are no longer necessary for life itself to exist. And the horrors of life are, of course, that everything eats everything else, and that everything dies, and that everything is born, and that the whole place is a charnel house. It's a catastrophe from beginning to end.
This is the vision of it being other than that. There's a strong idea that human beings can interact with reality in such a way that the tragic and evil elements of it can be mitigated, so that we can move closer to a state of being where we have the benefits of existence without the catastrophe that seems to go along with it.

Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a relativistic society are those with the least to offer.

begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.

You may come to ask yourself, “What should I do today?” in a manner that means “How could I use my time to make things better, instead of worse?

Slogans are a replacement for thought. The word "slogan" comes from the Gaelic sluagh-ghairm. It means "battlecry of the dead."

Satan says, offering the next temptation. “If God exists, He will surely save you. If you are in fact his Son, God will surely save you.” Why would God not make Himself manifest, to rescue His only begotten Child from hunger and isolation and the presence of great evil? But that establishes no pattern for life. It doesn’t even work as literature. The deus ex machina — the emergence of a divine force that magically rescues the hero from his predicament — is the cheapest trick in the hack writer’s playbook. It makes a mockery of independence, and courage, and destiny, and free will, and responsibility. Furthermore, God is in no wise a safety net for the blind. He’s not someone to be commanded to perform magic tricks, or forced into Self-revelation — not even by His own Son.

After all, if you’re not the leading man in your own drama, you’re a bit player in someone else’s — and you might well be assigned to play a dismal, lonely and tragic part.

Like God, however, ideology is dead. The bloody excesses of the twentieth century killed it.

if you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences — and infer the motivation.

But the story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions — and there’s nothing freeing about that.

You should be careful, therefore, to live your life fully, and marriage and children and grandchildren, and all the trouble and heartbreak that accompanies all of that, is much of what life has to offer. Miss it at your great peril.