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On May 7, 1945, the German author Erich Kästner wrote in his diary, “People walk through the streets, numbed. The short pause in history lessons makes them nervous. The gap between no longer and not yet bewilders them.” 1
“By keeping death in mind, one passes into a state of gratitude, of appreciation for the countless givens of existence. This is what the Stoics meant when they said, “Contemplate death if you would learn how to live.”
― Existential Psychotherapy
― Existential Psychotherapy
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
― Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre
― Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre
“Existentialism reveals that in trying to avoid responsibility, we end up avoiding freedom, and that in trying to avoid death, we end up avoiding life. Nihilism is thus seen as the result of our fear of death, and so the more we flee from death, the more nihilistic we become. To say that life is meaningless, as the existentialists do, is not to advocate nihilism but to combat it.”
― Nihilism
― Nihilism
“Heidegger believed that there are two fundamental modes of existing in the world: (1) a state of forgetfulness of being or (2) a state of mindfulness of being.”
― Existential Psychotherapy
― Existential Psychotherapy
“The most radical and the only secure form of possession is destruction, for only what we have destroyed is safely and forever ours.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
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