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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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Forget Have Irresponsible One Easiest Power Way
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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Age Come Love Only Require Understanding Wisdom
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Suffering is nature’s way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
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We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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Artist Chaos Create Form Genesis God Immerse Into Love Order Out Themselves
So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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Courage Fascimile Possible Psychologivcal Value Virtue
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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