The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.
— Jordan Peterson
Everything isn't political.
There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.
If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I'll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.
Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that's being pushed in a manner in schools that's completely reprehensible. It's not education, in my estimation. It's a form of indoctrination.
Power is competence.
It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.
Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.
In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.
All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents.
The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood.
There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.
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.
Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.
The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious.
My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.
It's in the best interest of the radical left types - best psychological and strategic interest - to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.
It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp.
You can't go backward in life.
That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.
You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.
One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women!
Become aware of your own insufficiency.
I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.
I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree.
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.
It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate.
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.
Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.
It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.
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.
People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.
Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.
I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don't know exactly what's going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what's inside of them without being part of them.
I don't really regard myself as a political figure.
You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything.
If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.
Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.
I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.
I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.
I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.
When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.
'Happiness' is a pointless goal.
If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.
Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.
