

“But there comes a point (and this is the challenge facing modern technological Western man) when the cult of technique destroys feeling, undermines passion, and blots out individual identity. The technologically efficient lover...has lost the power to be carried away; he knows only too well what he is doing. At this point, technology diminishes consciousness and demolishes eros. Tools are no longer an enlargement of consciousness but a substitute for it and, indeed, tend to repress and truncate it.”
― Love and Will
― Love and Will

“Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.”
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“Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man”
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“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”
― Man's Search for Himself
― Man's Search for Himself

“One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.”
― Man's Search for Himself
― Man's Search for Himself
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