12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

by Jordan B. Peterson

But the story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions—and there’s nothing freeing about that.

Standing up means voluntarily accepting the burden of Being.

People are better at filling and properly administering prescription medication to their pets than to themselves.

growing might be the most important form of winning. Should victory in the present always take

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

Violence, after all, is no mystery. It’s peace that’s the mystery.

Violence is the default. It’s easy. It’s peace that is difficult: learned, inculcated, earned. (People often get basic psychological questions backwards. Why do people take drugs? Not a mystery. It’s why they don’t take them all the time that’s the mystery.

This is partly because time lasts forever, when you’re two. Half an hour for me was a week for my son.

Abel could please God—a non-trivial and unlikely accomplishment—but he could not overcome human evil.

drew a similar social-psychological conclusion: deceitful, inauthentic individual existence is the precursor to social totalitarianism.