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- We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need…
- Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we…
- Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.
- To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man…
- Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.
- When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a…
- When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for.…
- Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
- Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new…
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