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“So many people judge the value of their actions not on the basis of the action itself, but on the basis of how the action is accepted.”
― Man's Search for Himself
― Man's Search for Himself
“Most people now, therefore, are able to find good external “reasons” for their belief that as selves they are insignificant and powerless. For how can one act, they well ask, in the face of the giant economic, political and social movements of the time?”
― Man's Search for Himself
― Man's Search for Himself
“The way to deal with neurotic anxiety is to bring out the original real experience one was afraid of, and then to work the apprehension through as normal anxiety or fear.”
― Man's Search for Himself
― Man's Search for Himself
“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.”
― Man's Search for Himself
― Man's Search for Himself
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