12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

by Jordan B. Peterson

You cannot aim yourself at anything if you are completely undisciplined and untutored.

necessary and desirable for religions to have a dogmatic element. What good is a value system that does not provide a stable structure?

You’re simply not an atheist in your actions, and it is your actions that most accurately reflect your deepest beliefs—those

You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.

You are too complex to understand yourself.

It takes careful observation, and education, and reflection, and communication with others, just to scratch the surface of your beliefs. Everything you value is a product of unimaginably lengthy developmental processes, personal, cultural and biological. You don’t understand how what you want—and, therefore, what you see—is conditioned by the immense, abysmal, profound past. You simply don’t understand how every neural circuit through which you peer at the world has been shaped (and painfully) by the ethical aims of milli...

The Bible is, for better or worse, the foundational document of Western civilization (of Western values, Western morality, and Western conceptions of good and evil).

Christianity put forward, explicitly, the even more incomprehensible idea that the act of human ownership degraded the slaver