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“Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.”
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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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“As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself.”
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“The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most”
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“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”
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“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as "moral indignation," which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue”
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“There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.”
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“The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
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“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
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“Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ''Patriotism'' is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by ''patriotism'' I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare /never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.”
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“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
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