Jordan Peterson Quotes

Canadian - Psychologist | June 12, 1962 -

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

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

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Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.

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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.

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I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

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To me, ideology is corrupt; it's a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you're an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you're religious, there's a mystery left there.

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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.

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It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.

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