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“If you tell enough lies, often enough, the truth will become entirely hidden from you… and then you are in hell.”

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“Watch people like a hawk, and when they do something good, tell them.”

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Personality Lectures

“History is the biography of the human race.”

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“When you know that the snake is in you – that's wisdom.”

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“Don't sacrifice who you could be for who you are.”

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“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.”

Jordan Peterson book 12 Rules for Life

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Rule 9: Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't

“A good work of fiction is more real than the stories from which it was derived. Otherwise it has no staying power. It's distilled reality. And some would say "it never happened," but it depends on what you mean by "happened."”

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If it's a pattern that repeats in many, many places, with variation, you can abstract out the central pattern. So the pattern never purely existed in any specific form, but the fact that you pulled a pattern out from all those exemplars means that you've extracted something real. I think the reason that the story of Adam and Eve has been immune to being forgotten is because it says things about the nature of the human condition that are always true.
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“You want to have a meaningful life? Everything you do matters. That's the definition of a meaningful life. But everything you do matters. So you're going to have to carry that with you.”

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“Romance requires trust—and the deeper the trust, the deeper the possibility for romance.”

Jordan Peterson book Beyond Order

Source: Books, Beyond Order (2021), p. 271

“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.”

Jordan Peterson book Beyond Order

Source: Books, Beyond Order (2021), p. 133

“To come up with the idea that you can bargain with the future is the major idea of humankind. We suffer. What do we do about it? We figure out how to bargain with the future. And we minimize suffering in that manner.”

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifi5KkXig3s "Biblical Series IV: Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death"

“There is nothing more useful in combating the tragedy of life than to struggle with all your soul on behalf of the good.”

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“We've discovered the future, as a place you can bargain with.”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLc_MC7NQek&t=1h1m20s
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“The frontier is the edge between what you know and what you don't know. You want to put yourself on that edge.”

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“What scientific truth tells you is: what things are. Genuine religious truth tells you: how you should act. These are not the same.”

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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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Slaying the Dragon Within Us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REjUkEj1O_0 <br class="br">Other

“We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown—and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.”

Jordan Peterson book 12 Rules for Life

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Overture

“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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Excerpt from 2017 Personality Lecture 21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9U5IHQWSZc <br class="br">Personality Lectures