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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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“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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“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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“Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.”
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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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“There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.”
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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 mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”
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“The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.”
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