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" 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. "

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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

Truth Is

" We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out. "

" People have this capacity within them to set the world straight. "

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

" Become aware of your own insufficiency. "

" As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight. "

" My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists. "

Jordan Peterson

Record

Publication

" It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women. "

" Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it. "

Jordan Peterson

Data

Little

" You can't go backward in life. "

" Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous. "

" 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. "

Jordan Peterson

Liberals

Nature

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

" You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything. "

Jordan Peterson

Change

Chaos

" Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler. "

" If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards. "

" 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. "

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

" When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation. "

" I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory. "

" Abortion is clearly wrong. "

" Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open. "

Jordan Peterson

Eyes

Open

" 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. "

" I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses. "

" 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 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. "

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

Jordan Peterson

Think

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

" 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. "

Jordan Peterson

Say

You

" I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch. "