Jordan Peterson

"Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?"

"If you're talking to a man who wouldn't fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you're talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect."

"It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women."

"It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that."

"Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me."

"People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story."

"The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood."

"We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they're stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another."

"You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything."