“That’s the most common form of lie: passive avoidance; willful blindness. That’s the most common form of deception, although, active deceit can also play a role. If you contaminate the structure of your Being with false information, with deceptive practices, and you willfully blind yourself, then yo…”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Jordan B Peterson | *Spring 2017* | full-length interview
“Nietzsche said that Christianity developed the sense of truth to such a degree that it died at the hands of its own construction. I think that’s brilliant. I think it’s absolutely the case. And so you can see the Enlightenment as part of that: the spirit of truth was highly developed, and that led p…”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Jordan B Peterson | *Spring 2017* | full-length interview
“Yeah, well, there’s this dawning awareness that, out of a plethora of heroes, the ultimate hero will emerge. Think about this psychologically. Just think about it psychologically. Imagine that what human beings are trying to do is abstract out the ultimate patterns for modes of Being. So what they d…”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Jordan B Peterson | *Spring 2017* | full-length interview
“Well, it’s been my experience as a clinician that, the more serious the events that you’re discussing with people, the more the language shifts towards what you might describe as the religious. So, for example, post-traumatic stress disorder—that’s a good example—or cases of serious child abuse or t…”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Jordan B Peterson | *Spring 2017* | full-length interview
“People often ask me, 'do you believe in God?' I don’t like that question. First of all, it’s an attempt to box me in, in a sense. The reason that it’s an attempt to box me in is because the question is asked so that I can be firmly placed on one side of a binary argument. The reason I don’t like to…”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Jordan B Peterson | *Spring 2017* | full-length interview
“'Genie' is the root word for 'genius,' and it’s a really interesting idea, because a genie is something that, as Robin William’s said: 'unlimited power! Tiny little living space.' But it’s a really interesting idea, because there’s this unlimited power that’s associated with genius, but it’s constra…”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Aubrey Marcus Podcast | #155 Truth and Responsibility with Jordan Peterson
“I believe, when I made the videos, that the legislation itself and the policies were signifying a crisis, a disjunction in Western society, of which the gender pronoun argument was only a tiny tendril. The fact that the videos received so much attention—and the aftermath of it, also—continues to rev…”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Jordan B Peterson | *Spring 2017* | full-length interview