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" That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together. "

Jordan Peterson

Truth

Nature

" Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday. "

" You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it's not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there's been human beings. "

" Power is competence. "

Jordan Peterson

Power

Competence

" Everything isn't political. "

Jordan Peterson

Everything

Political

" Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering. "

" The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it's actually a being. 'Harry Potter''s a good example. So Harry's the hero, right. But he's tainted with evil. There's a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It's well balanced. "

" 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. "

" The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood. "

" No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life. "

" If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis. "

" One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women! "

" It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity. "

" The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that. "

" It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words. "

" I don't really regard myself as a political figure. "

" 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? "

" It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate. "

" The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are. "

Jordan Peterson

Think

" I like working-class people, generally speaking. "

Jordan Peterson

Speaking

People

" 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. "

" Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail? "

" 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. "