Jordan Peterson quotes - page 7

What does opening your eyes and realizing your vulnerability have to do with the knowledge of good and evil? (Jordan Peterson)
Believe that you have somethikng important to contribute to the world, and that the world would be a lesser place without that contribution. View quote
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Group identity can be fractionated right down to the level of the individual. View quote
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Freud was, after all, a genius. You can tell that because people still hate him. View quote
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Women are attracted to men's ability to generate, to be productive, and to share. These qualities transcend wealth, which can disappear. View quote
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The thing that's so interesting about being alive is that you're all in. No matter what you do you're all in; this is gonna kill you. So I think you might as well play the most magnificent game you can while you're waiting-because, do you have anything better to do, really? View quote
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Embodied imitation and dramatic abstraction constituted the ground out of which higher abstract cognition emerged. How else could it be? Clearly we were mostly bodies before we were minds. Clearly. And so we were acting out things way before we understood them. View quote
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Those who break the rules ethically are those who have mastered them first and disciplined themselves to understand the necessity of those rules, and break them in keeping with the spirit rather than the letter of the law. View quote
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[T]he great genie, the granter of wishes-God, in a microcosm-is archetypally trapped in the tiny confines of a lamp and subject, as well, to the will of the lamp's current holder. Genie-genius-is the combination of possibility and potential, and extreme constraint. View quote
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It has taken since time immemorial for us to organize ourselves, biologically and socially, into the functional hierarchies that both specify our perceptions and actions, and define our interactions with the natural and social world. Profound gratitude for that gift is the only proper response. View quote
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Behavior is imitated, then abstracted into play, formalized into drama and story, crystallized into myth and codified into religion-and only then criticized in philosophy, and provided, post-hoc, with rational underpinnings. (Jordan Peterson)
I think it is reasonable to posit that it is often the people who have had too easy a time-who have been pampered and elevated falsely in their self-esteem-who adopt the role of victim and the mien of resentment. View quote
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I have camped where the grizzly bears were plentiful. It is nice that they are on the planet and all that, but I prefer my grizzlies shy, not too hungry, and far enough away to be picturesque. View quote
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There are three fundamental states of social being: tyranny (you do what I want), slavery (I do what you want), or negotiation. View quote
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Although Christ commits many acts that might be considered revolutionary, as we discussed in Rule I, He is nonetheless explicitly portrayed in the Gospels as the master of tradition. View quote
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It was the bringing together of a warring multiplicity under the unifying doctrines of Christianity that civilized Europe. View quote
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It is far better to become something than to remain anything but become nothing. View quote
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To write something long, sophisticated, and coherent means, at least in part, to become more complex, articulate, and deeper in personality. View quote
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If you aim at nothing, you become plagued by everything. View quote
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Like God, however, ideology is dead. The bloody excesses of the twentieth century killed it. View quote
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