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"50 Jordan Peterson Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 12 June 1962 | Psychologist |

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

Hard Find Own Exist
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I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.

Insight Capacity Good Evil
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The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.

Purpose Life Bear Burden
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You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.

Pay Price Choose Poison
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If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences. For example if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you'd like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves.

Understand Someone Look Action
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If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self.

Feel Kill Self Think
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.

Understand Complex Believe Think
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If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.

Future Fulfill Worry Obligation
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects. And you can say

Select Nature Make Success
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

Little Order Insist World
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Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.

View Matter Wrong Right
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

Power Vision Direction Force
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.

Protect Frighten Hurt Identify
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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.

Think Tough Dangerous Capable
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.

True Always Come Power
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.

Suffer Know Terribly Cause
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse.

Determine Life Move Instead
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If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you’re constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.

Effort Person Moral Virtue
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.

Have Perhaps You What
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You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.

Price Pay Choose Get
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Abortion is clearly wrong.
Abortion Health Clearly Wrong
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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.

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

Ancient Difficult Emerges Essentially
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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?

Continue Going Instead Motivation
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If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.
Analysis Never Salt Scientist
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I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'

Could Less Okay People
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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.

Answer Around Been Communities
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There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

Clear Crystal Doubt Evidence
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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.

Because Case Conservatives Dominate
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No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.
Anything Away Ever Gets
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Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

Complex Else Everything Everything Else
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To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Master New New Technology Play
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The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

Appalling History Idea Oppressed
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If you're talking to a man who wouldn't fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you're talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Absolutely Any Any Circumstances Circumstances
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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.

Admit Itself Jobs People
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The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.
Cognitive Differences Force Massive
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The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

Convincing Health Inequality Instability
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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.

Been Beings Cyberspace Different
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I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

Beats Big Big Fan Civilization
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Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

Always Been Intrinsic Me
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You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

Good Good Reason Other People
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I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

Am Detest Going I Am
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It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Difficult Learn Over Regulate
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It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

City Difficult More Rule
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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.

Another Because Hierarchy Means
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It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.

Associate Deeper Human Human Nature
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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.

Absolute Been Diet Fed
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It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.

Find Happiness Impulsive Life
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I like working-class people, generally speaking.

Generally Like People Speaking
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I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

Bad Carpenter Houses I Can
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Jordan Peterson Quotes & Sayings