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• When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we…
• To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once…
• I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done…
• The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity…
• Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.
• People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves
• Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.
• What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know…
• It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never…
• The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something…
• We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call…
• The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept…

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