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Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it’s absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.

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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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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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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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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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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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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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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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