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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

by Iain McGilchrist (Goodreads Author)

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“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates

tags: independence, self-reliance

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“Injustice in the end produces independence.”
― Voltaire

tags: cause-and-effect, independence, injustice, suffering

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“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: goals, success

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“The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
― Thomas Stephen Szasz

tags: autonomy, independence, self-reliance

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