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" We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they're stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another. "

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" 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. "

Jordan Peterson

Life

Live

Struggle

" I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification. "

" You may say, 'Well, dragons don't exist.' It's, like, yes they do - the category 'predator' and the category 'dragon' are the same category. It absolutely exists. It's a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists. "

Jordan Peterson

Yes

Dragon

" 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. "

" Become aware of your own insufficiency. "

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

" Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me. "

Jordan Peterson

Mysterious

Music

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

" In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures. "

" The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming. "

" 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

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

" I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature. "

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

" The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences. "

" People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story. "

" All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents. "

" I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life? "

" Abortion is clearly wrong. "

" Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization. "

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

" There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men. "

" The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious. "

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

" 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. "

" If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it. "