Quotes by Jordan Peterson

"It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure."

"'Happiness' is a pointless goal."

"The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that."

"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!"

"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."

"Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me."

"Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous."

"Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?"

"To master a new technology, you have to play with it."

"The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity."

"Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life."

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

"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."

"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."

"If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it."

"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."