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“Man is naturally humble, naturally grateful, naturally guilty, naturally transcended, naturally a sufferer; he is small, pitiful, weak, a passive taker who tucks himself naturally in a beyond of superior, awesome, all-embracing power.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“never has there been an age in which so little knowledge is securely possessed, so little a part of the common understanding.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“With the truth, one cannot live. To be able to live one needs illusions, not only outer illusions such as art, religion, philosophy, science and love afford, but inner illusions which first condition the outer”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“the neurotic symptom is a communication about truth: that the illusion that one is invulnerable is a lie.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“modern man is the victim of his own disillusionment; he has been disinherited by his own analytic strength.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
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