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"This is pretty good. JA can be prolix at times, but this is a fair price to pay for solid delivery. He doesn't dumb down the subject and isn't afraid of introducing technical concepts when needed to support his intent. And there are enough innovative, and even off the wall ideas to make the book thought provoking." — May 03, 2026 08:25AM
"This is pretty good. JA can be prolix at times, but this is a fair price to pay for solid delivery. He doesn't dumb down the subject and isn't afraid of introducing technical concepts when needed to support his intent. And there are enough innovative, and even off the wall ideas to make the book thought provoking." — May 03, 2026 08:25AM
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"This book (especially the editor footnotes) is giving me a braingasm." — Mar 10, 2026 10:59AM
"This book (especially the editor footnotes) is giving me a braingasm." — Mar 10, 2026 10:59AM
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
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“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.”
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“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”
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“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
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