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Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999), 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2017), Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (2021) and We Who Wrestle With God (2024)
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Romance requires trust—and the deeper the trust, the deeper the possibility for romance.
Beyond Order (2021)
If you are not capable of cruelty, then you are absolutely a victim of anyone who is.
Your values have to be hierarchically organized with something absolute at the top, because otherwise they do nothing but war.
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.
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.
Beyond Order (2021)
Like God, however, ideology is dead. The bloody excesses of the twentieth century killed it.
Beyond Order (2021)
When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
It is far better to become something than to remain anything but become nothing.
Beyond Order (2021)
To write something long, sophisticated, and coherent means, at least in part, to become more complex, articulate, and deeper in personality.
Beyond Order (2021)
If you aim at nothing, you become plagued by everything.
Beyond Order (2021)
There is a high goal, a mountain peak, a star that shines in the darkness, beckoning above the horizon. Its mere existence gives you hope—and that is the meaning without which you cannot live.
Beyond Order (2021)
Competence can step in where popularity cannot go.
A thing isn't quite real until you name it.
There is nothing more useful in combating the tragedy of life than to struggle with all your soul on behalf of the good.
Horror and terror lurk behind the walls provided so wisely by our ancestors.
It was the bringing together of a warring multiplicity under the unifying doctrines of Christianity that civilized Europe.
Beyond Order (2021)
There are three fundamental states of social being: tyranny (you do what I want), slavery (I do what you want), or negotiation.
Beyond Order (2021)
Group identity can be fractionated right down to the level of the individual.
If you can bite, you generally don't have to.
That is the nature of our ancestors: immensely courageous hunters, defenders, shepherds, voyagers, inventors, warriors, and founders of cities and states. That is the father you could rescue; the ancestor you could become.
Beyond Order (2021)
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