Jordan Peterson Quotes

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Here's how you can tell someone is your friend: A) You can tell them bad news, and they'll listen. B) You can tell them good news, and they'll help you celebrate.

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People camouflage against the herd. People aren't after happiness, they're after not hurting.

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If religion was the opium of the masses, then communism was the methamphetamine of the masses.

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The motivation that drives the commission of the worst human atrocities is an inevitable social consequence of the refusal of the self-conscious individual to make the sacrifices appropriate to establishing a harmonious life and their consequent degeneration into a kind of murderous and resentment filled raged rage propagating endlessly through its variations in society until everything comes to an end.

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I think the idea of white privilege is absolutely reprehensible, and it's not because white people aren't privileged. You know, we have all sorts of privileges, and most people have privileges of all sorts, and you should be grateful for your privileges and work to deserve them, I would say. But, the idea that you can target an ethnic group with a collective crime, regardless of the specific innocence or guilt of the constituent elements of that group, there is absolutely nothing that's more racist than that. It's absolutely abhorrent.

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Weak and miserable as I am, I can still stand up to the terrible tragedy of life and prevail!

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The truth is something that burns, it burns off deadwood and people don't like having their deadwood burnt off often because they're 95% deadwood

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Why do dragons hoard gold? Because the things you most need is always to be found where you least want to look.

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Life is suffering.
Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated.
Truth is the handmaiden of love.
Dialogue is the pathway to truth.
Humility is recognition of personal insufficiency and the willingness to learn.
To learn is to die voluntarily and be born again, in great ways and small.
So speech must be untrammeled, so that dialogue can take place.
So that we can all humbly learn.
So that truth can serve love.
So that suffering can be ameliorated.
So that we can all stumble forward to the Kingdom of God.

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Do you want to be what you are or do you want to be what continually changes what you are?

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The idea is that you could sacrifice something of value, and that would have transcendent utility. That is by no means an unsophisticated idea. In fact, it might be the greatest idea that human beings ever came up with.

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