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“Only slowly could these men be guided back to the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Life in a concentration camp tore open the human soul
and exposed its depths. Is it surprising that in those
depths we again found only human qualities which in
their very nature were a mixture of good and evil? The
rift dividing good from evil, which goes through all
human beings, reaches into the lowest depths and becomes
apparent even on the bottom of the abyss which is
laid open by the concentration camp.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
and exposed its depths. Is it surprising that in those
depths we again found only human qualities which in
their very nature were a mixture of good and evil? The
rift dividing good from evil, which goes through all
human beings, reaches into the lowest depths and becomes
apparent even on the bottom of the abyss which is
laid open by the concentration camp.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
“I think the same is true of dying. We can’t know why you are dying in the same way that we can’t know why you are living. Living and dying are both complete mysteries, and you can’t know either until you have done both.”
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
― Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
― Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
“But most important, standing apart represents the moment in which the desperate desire to leave (forever!) matures into a commitment to live in permanent refusal, where one already is, and to meet others in the common space of that refusal. This kind of resistance still manifests as participating, but participating in the “wrong way”: a way that undermines the authority of the hegemonic game and creates possibilities outside of it.”
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
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