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“PHILOSOPHER: Instead of seeking approval, one has to approve oneself, with one’s own mind.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Our whole way of living inhibits that necessary intimate contact with our fellow men, which is essential for the development of the science and art of knowing human nature. Since we do not find sufficient contact with our fellow men, we become their enemies. Our behavior towards them is often mistaken, and our judgments frequently false, simply because we do not adequately understand human nature.”
― Alfred Adler, Understanding Human Nature: The psychology of personality

“He is saying not just to love one’s neighbour, but to love them as much as one loves oneself. If one cannot love oneself, one cannot love others. If one cannot believe in oneself, one cannot believe in others. Please think of the phrase as carrying that connotation. You are insisting that you cannot believe in other people, but that is because you have not managed to truly believe in yourself.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Sacrifice requires perfect awareness of destruction: if this clear-sighted attention is missing, there is no sacrifice. For technology it's enough to justify with claims about its practical utility.”
― Roberto Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch