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Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “I couldn’t understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them. I came to realize that shared belief systems made people intelligible to one another – and that the systems weren’t just about belief.”

401. “I couldn’t understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them. I came to realize that shared belief systems made people intelligible to one another – and that the systems weren’t just about belief.”

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Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “It is easy for optimism to be undermined and demolished, however, if it is naive, and for cynicism to arise in its place. But the act of peering into the darkness as deeply as possible reveals a light that appears unquenchable, and that is a profound surprise, as well as a great relief.”

402. “It is easy for optimism to be undermined and demolished, however, if it is naive, and for cynicism to arise in its place. But the act of peering into the darkness as deeply as possible reveals a light that appears unquenchable, and that is a profound surprise, as well as a great relief.”

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Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “If you lean too far in one direction, something else in you leans equally far in the other.”

403. “If you lean too far in one direction, something else in you leans equally far in the other.”

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Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “The moral of Genesis I is that Being brought into existence through true speech is Good.”

404. “The moral of Genesis I is that Being brought into existence through true speech is Good.”

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Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “And why does it so often seem to be the very people standing so visibly against prejudice who so often appear to feel obligated to denounce humanity itself?”

405. “And why does it so often seem to be the very people standing so visibly against prejudice who so often appear to feel obligated to denounce humanity itself?”

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Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “When the wrong principle is established as supreme – when a false king is set upon the throne or an impious ethos prevails – the people quickly find themselves deprived of the very water of life. More deeply, however, a kingdom oriented around the wrong pole – that worships the wrong gods, so to speak – suffers psychologically or spiritually.”

406. “When the wrong principle is established as supreme – when a false king is set upon the throne or an impious ethos prevails – the people quickly find themselves deprived of the very water of life. More deeply, however, a kingdom oriented around the wrong pole – that worships the wrong gods, so to speak – suffers psychologically or spiritually.”

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Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “What shall I say to a faithless brother? The King of the Damned is a poor judge of Being.”

407. “What shall I say to a faithless brother? The King of the Damned is a poor judge of Being.”

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Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “We thought it over, and drew a conclusion: The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future. A great idea begins to emerge, taking ever-more-clearly-articulated form, in ever more-clearly-articulated stories: What’s the difference between the successful and the unsuccessful? The successful sacrifice. Things get better, as the successful practise their sacrifices.”

408. “We thought it over, and drew a conclusion: The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future. A great idea begins to emerge, taking ever-more-clearly-articulated form, in ever more-clearly-articulated stories: What’s the difference between the successful and the unsuccessful? The successful sacrifice. Things get better, as the successful practise their sacrifices.”

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Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “The sexual abuse of children is distressingly common.156 However, it’s not as common as poorly trained psychotherapists think, and it also does not always produce terribly damaged adults.157 People vary in their resilience. An event that will wipe one person out can be shrugged off by another. But therapists with a little second-hand knowledge of Freud often axiomatically assume that a distressed adult in their practice must have been subject to childhood sexual abuse.”

409. “The sexual abuse of children is distressingly common.156 However, it’s not as common as poorly trained psychotherapists think, and it also does not always produce terribly damaged adults.157 People vary in their resilience. An event that will wipe one person out can be shrugged off by another. But therapists with a little second-hand knowledge of Freud often axiomatically assume that a distressed adult in their practice must have been subject to childhood sexual abuse.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “There can be no wealth in the absence of a true moral order.”

410. “There can be no wealth in the absence of a true moral order.”

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Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “You may feel small or insignificant in comparison, but only because you confront something greater, and there is in that very act of encountering what is greater the realization that greater itself exists, and that it can and should be strived toward.”

411. “You may feel small or insignificant in comparison, but only because you confront something greater, and there is in that very act of encountering what is greater the realization that greater itself exists, and that it can and should be strived toward.”

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Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “The Bible is the library of stories on which the most productive, freest, and most stable and peaceful societies the world has ever known are predicated – the foundation of the West, plain and simple.”

412. “The Bible is the library of stories on which the most productive, freest, and most stable and peaceful societies the world has ever known are predicated – the foundation of the West, plain and simple.”

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Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “And, above all, don’t lie. Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. It was the great and the small lies of the Nazi and Communist states that produced the deaths of millions of people.”

413. “And, above all, don’t lie. Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. It was the great and the small lies of the Nazi and Communist states that produced the deaths of millions of people.”

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Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “Even if I was “traumatized,” what would be the point of having survived it only to have to pay someone else to complain to about it, rather than turn it into something positive?”

414. “Even if I was “traumatized,” what would be the point of having survived it only to have to pay someone else to complain to about it, rather than turn it into something positive?”

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Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “Slay the dragon in his lair before he comes to your village. If you run from the things you are afraid of, you run from what you need, in fact, to find.”

415. “Slay the dragon in his lair before he comes to your village. If you run from the things you are afraid of, you run from what you need, in fact, to find.”

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Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “It was all those counterproductive forces that the Egyptians were attempting to conceptualize in the figure of Set, the enemy of illumination, enlightenment, vision, and consciousness.”

416. “It was all those counterproductive forces that the Egyptians were attempting to conceptualize in the figure of Set, the enemy of illumination, enlightenment, vision, and consciousness.”

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Jordan B. Peterson Quote: “Ressentiment8 – hostile resentment – occurs when individual failure or insufficient status is blamed both on the system within which that failure or lowly status occurs and then, most particularly, on the people who have achieved success and high status within that system.”

417. “Ressentiment8 – hostile resentment – occurs when individual failure or insufficient status is blamed both on the system within which that failure or lowly status occurs and then, most particularly, on the people who have achieved success and high status within that system.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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