Frasi di Jordan Peterson

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“Non cercare di salvare qualcuno che non vuole essere salvato, e sii molto attento a salvare qualcuno che vuole essere salvato.”

“Non c'è differenza tra la conquista dell'ignoto e la creazione di un ordine abitabile.”

“Se loro sono in fiamme e tu hai acqua, allora puoi vendergliela.”

“Non c'è essere senza imperfezione.”

“If you want to find out whether the person is there or the ideology is there, you listen to see if you're hearing anything that someone else with the same ideological mindset couldn't have told you.”

“Freud was, after all, a genius. You can tell that because people still hate him.”

“Women are attracted to men's ability to generate, to be productive, and to share. These qualities transcend wealth, which can disappear.”

“You should watch when you talk to young men about responsibility. They're so thrilled about it. It just blows me away. Really?! That's what the counter-culture is? Grow up and do something useful. "Really? I can do that? Oh, I'm so excited by that idea. No one ever mentioned that before."”

“The thing that's so interesting about being alive is that you're all in. No matter what you do you're all in; this is gonna kill you. So I think you might as well play the most magnificent game you can while you're waiting—because, do you have anything better to do, really?”

“Human beings have this peculiar capacity that no other creatures have: I know how I can be hurt, because I am aware of my own limitations–painfully aware—and now, because I know how I can be hurt, I know how you can be hurt, and I can take advantage of that. And that's how evil enters the world.”

“Embodied imitation and dramatic abstraction constituted the ground out of which higher abstract cognition emerged. How else could it be? Clearly we were mostly bodies before we were minds. Clearly. And so we were acting out things way before we understood them.”

“Those who break the rules ethically are those who have mastered them first and disciplined themselves to understand the necessity of those rules, and break them in keeping with the spirit rather than the letter of the law.”

“[T]he great genie, the granter of wishes—God, in a microcosm—is archetypally trapped in the tiny confines of a lamp and subject, as well, to the will of the lamp’s current holder. Genie—genius—is the combination of possibility and potential, and extreme constraint.”

“It has taken since time immemorial for us to organize ourselves, biologically and socially, into the functional hierarchies that both specify our perceptions and actions, and define our interactions with the natural and social world. Profound gratitude for that gift is the only proper response.”

“Every explorer is therefore, by necessity, a revolutionary, and every successful revolutionary is a peacemaker.”

“Behavior is imitated, then abstracted into play, formalized into drama and story, crystallized into myth and codified into religion—and only then criticized in philosophy, and provided, post-hoc, with rational underpinnings.”

“I think it is reasonable to posit that it is often the people who have had too easy a time—who have been pampered and elevated falsely in their self-esteem—who adopt the role of victim and the mien of resentment.”

“I have camped where the grizzly bears were plentiful. It is nice that they are on the planet and all that, but I prefer my grizzlies shy, not too hungry, and far enough away to be picturesque.”

“There are three fundamental states of social being: tyranny (you do what I want), slavery (I do what you want), or negotiation.”

“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.”

“It was the bringing together of a warring multiplicity under the unifying doctrines of Christianity that civilized Europe.”

“It is far better to become something than to remain anything but become nothing.”

“To write something long, sophisticated, and coherent means, at least in part, to become more complex, articulate, and deeper in personality.”

“If you aim at nothing, you become plagued by everything.”

“Like God, however, ideology is dead. The bloody excesses of the twentieth century killed it.”