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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept; 1992.

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What the herd hates the most is the one who thinks differently. It is not so much the opinion itself, as the audacity of wanting to think for themselves. Something they do not know how to do.

Arthur Schopenhauer, Paralipomena Et Parerga.

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From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud, Sayings.

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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Carl G. Jung, A Review Of The Complex Theory, Collected Works Vol. 8 (1934).

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He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Jean-Luc Godard, Sayings.

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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Aldous Huxley, Along The Road; Notes And Essays Of A Tourist, 1925.

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Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul.

Carl G. Jung, The Development Of Personality, Collected Works Vol. 17, 331.

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Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

William S. Burroughs, Source Unlisted.

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I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.

Jacques Lacan, Television; 1990.

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I do not understand why we find it necessary to slander others. If we want to hurt people, we only need to say something true about them.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments during November 1882 - February 1883.

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Erich Fromm, Source Unlisted.

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You don’t sacrifice the ideal just because you haven’t managed to attain it.

Jordan Peterson, Foundations of the west; Lectures.

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The truth does not require your participation to exist. Bullshit does.

Terence McKenna, Source Unlisted.

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What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

Soren Kierkegaard, Source Unlisted.

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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Henri Bergson, Source Unlisted.

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Those who want to abolish all hardships because they themselves are not up to them are like sick people who wish to abolish bad weather—rain, no matter what the consequences might be to others and to the earth generally.

—almost as stupid as would be the desire to abolish bad weather—say, from pity for poor people.

Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Ecce Homo; Why I Am A Destiny.

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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Aldous Huxley, Do what you will: Twelve essays.