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"Black truths are truths you use to hurt other people with. Technically in the moment the statement is factual, but the context belies it. Where as a white lie, well it's a little lie but you're trying to support a larger truth. White lies aren't optimal, it's better not to lie, but sometimes the best you can manage is a white lie."

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Feb 07, 2018

Quote taken from Jocko Podcast 112 w/ Jordan Peterson - Life is Hard. 12 Rules for Life. at 1:07:56.


"The sovereign voice of the individual is the power that casts potential into habitable being and restructures tyrannical order when it needs to be restructured."

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Aug 08, 2018

Quote taken from Nectarine News - Jordan Peterson Discusses Free Speech and Raif Badawi at 28:39.


"There are truths of drama and literature, and there are material truths of science. But there are times when those two align and they're true literally and metaphysically, literally and metaphorically at the same time."

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Jan 22, 2018

Quote taken from GeenStijl - Jordan Peterson on the Channel 4 Controversy and Philosophy of "How to be in the World" at 1:11:46.


"The way that you take the potential upon which the cosmos is predicated and cast into the order that allows everyone to thrive is by using truthful speech. Wouldn't it be something if that was the case?"

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Aug 08, 2018

Quote taken from Nectarine News - Jordan Peterson Discusses Free Speech and Raif Badawi at 20:18.


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