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“You see, people in the depressive position are often stigmatised as ‘failures' or ‘losers'. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. If these people are in the depressive position, it is most probably because they have tried too…

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“Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.”

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“Just as Prometheus delivered stolen fire to man, so Eve, and the serpent, delivered man into self-consciousness, setting him up, were it not for his short lifespan, as rival to God. At the same time, man’s self-consciousness removed him from nature into a life of toil, doubt, fear, guilt, shame, blame, enmity, loneliness, and frailty—and the product of this separation,…

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“Just as we use speech and gestures to communicate, so we use touch. Words can say, ‘I love you’, but touch can also say how and how much, and, at the same time, ‘I respect you’, ‘I need you’, and ‘thank you’. For a long time, scientists somehow thought that touch served merely to emphasize a verbal message. But now…

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Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

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“Ultimately, loneliness is not the experience of lacking but the experience of living. It is part and parcel of the human condition, and, unless a person is resolved, it can only be a matter of time before it resurfaces, often with a vengeance. On this account, loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the…

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Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped,…

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“Philosophy is a bitter medicine with many fearsome side effects, but if you are able to stomach it, it can cure your soul of…

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“In refining their senses and aesthetic judgement, blind tasters become much more conscious of the richness not only of wine but also of other…

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Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able…

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“Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.”

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There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love…

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“Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound…

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