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"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."
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"Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it."
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Personal Development
"If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body."
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"We live in the shadows of perception. Our dull awareness gives us no useful clues as to why we are here."
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"Disquietude that springs from the fundamental nature of being a human being is vaster and more encompassing than depression, which has a cause and therefore a cure."
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"All life depends upon the opportunistic interplay between elemental forces, the mysterious dualities of the numinous universe. Ying and yang forces of the natural world (lightness and darkness, fire and water, expansion and contraction) create tangible dualities that are complementary, interconnected, and independent. Without the firmament in the midst of the waters, without both sunshine and water, no life forms could subsist on this rocky orb. Without the rich soil surrounded by a canopy of an illimitable sky how could we feed ourselves, how could we breathe?"
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"This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those oozing walls, --what declaimers!"
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"I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me."
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"No one was created in vain."
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"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation."
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"Life is in time; seconds, minutes and hours."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
Art
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
Being
"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
Cultural
"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market."
Love
"Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, man could become insane if he did not save himself by acquiring a secondary sense of self; he does that by experiencing himself as being approved of, worthwhile, successful, useful - briefly, as a salable commodity which is he because he is looked upon by others as an entity, not unique but fitting into one of the current patterns."
Psychology
"Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him."
Quality
"Modern man thinks he loses something-time-when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains- except kill it."
Life
"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
Love
"The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life."
Psychology
"Millions are impressed by the victories of power and take it for the sign of strength. To be sure, power over people is an expression of superior strength in a purely material sense. If I have the power over another person to kill him, I am "stronger" than he is. But in a psychological sense, the lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. It is the expression of inability of the individual self to stand alone and live. It is the desperate attempt to gain secondary strength where genuine strength is lacking."
Philosophy
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