Jordan Peterson

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.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

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.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

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!

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.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

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.

I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life?

It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.

You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

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

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

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