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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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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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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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