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“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.”
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“As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself.”
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“The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most”
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“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”
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“Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.”
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“The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
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“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.”
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“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve”
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“To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness”
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“Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived lives”
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“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.”
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