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Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.

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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One’s own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one’s sphere of control.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.
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