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“Discipline is the cultivation of resistance, and where there is resistance there is no understanding. A well disciplined mind is not a free mind, and it is only in freedom that any discovery can be made.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living: First Series

“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“…man does not live very long in the infantile environment or in the bosom of his family without real danger to his mental health. Life calls him forth to independence, and he who gives no heed to this hard call because of childish indolence and fear is threatened by a neurosis, and once the neurosis has broken out it becomes more and more a valid reason to escape the battle with life and to remain for all time in the morally poisoned infantile atmosphere.”
― C.G. Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious

“As the entrepreneur of its own self, the neoliberal subject has no capacity for relationships with others that might be free of purpose. Nor do entrepreneurs know what purpose-free friendship would even look like. Originally, being free meant being among friends. ‘Freedom’ and ‘friendship’ have the same root in Indo-European languages. Fundamentally, freedom signifies a relationship. A real feeling of freedom occurs only in a fruitful relationship – when being with others brings happiness. But today’s neoliberal regime leads to utter isolation; as such, it does not really free us at all. Accordingly, the question now is whether we need to redefine freedom – to reinvent it – in order to escape from the fatal dialectic that is changing freedom into coercion.”
― Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power