乔丹·彼得森( Jordan Peterson, 1962 – 至今)，加拿大临床心理学家，多伦多大学心理学教授。在21世纪10年代末，他在文化和政治问题上的观点开始受到广泛关注。
It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
正是在责任中，大多数人找到了支撑他们一生的意义， 而不是在幸福中，也不是在一时的快乐中。
‘Happiness’ is a pointless goal.
“幸福”是一个空洞的的目标。
It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.
找到你自己的语言是非常困难的——而且在你有了自己的语言之前，你实际上并不存在。
Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
不要拿自己和别人比较; 把自己和昨天的自己比较一下。
When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
当你开始认识到你对自己的塑造有多少是建立在欺骗和谎言的基础上时，这是一个可怕的认识。
Part of the core information that I’ve been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don’t play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let’s say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they’re equally dangerous.
我所提供的部分核心信息是，身份政治（认同政治）是一种病态的游戏。你不要玩种族、民族和性别身份的游戏。左派代表被压迫者，而右派则代表民族主义和民族自豪感。我认为它们同样危险。
The book, ’12 Rules For Life,’ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.
《生活的12条规则》是一本非常严肃的书。这里面有一些幽默的元素，但我试图在最深层的层面向人们解释为什么过一种正直、高尚、有道德、真实和负责任的生活是必要的，以及为什么不这样做就会付出巨大的代价。
