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Thursday 25 April 2019

Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

It's not what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so. -Mark Twain quoted in Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p12

We cannot navigate without something to aim and, while we are in this world we must always navigate.-Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p92

What you aim at determines what you see.--Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p96

Life doesn't have the problem; you do. -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p99


The tendency for modern people to think, when confronted with Jehovah. 'I would never believe in a God like that.'With the old Testament god doesn't much care what modern people think. He often and didn't care what old Testament people thought either.- -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p104

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today. --Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p111

Parents should come in pairs.-Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p142

Solzhenitsyn's writing utterly and finally demolished the intellectual credibility of communism as ideology or society, - Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p155

It is the greatest temptation of the rational faculty to glorify its own capacity and its own productions and to claim that in the face of its theories, nothing transcendent or outside its domain need exist. - -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life p.218

Life is suffering. That's clear.There is no more basic, irrefutable truth, - - Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p 161

The Word that produced order from Chaos sacrifices everything, even itself to God. That single sentence, wise beyond comprehension, sums up Christianity, - Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,  (surely Himself not itself- GJW)

Things fall apart. This is one of the great discoveries of humanity. -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p 228

Your inaction, inertia and cynicism removes fro the word that part of you that could learn to quell suffering and make peace..  -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p 367

At the beginning of time ... the Word of God transformed chaos into Being through the act of speech.   We also transform chaos into Being through speech. - Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p 230

Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't.Things fall apart. This is one of the great discoveries of humanity. -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p 228

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