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No postoji još jedan temeljni problem sa životnim lažima, osobito ako se zasnivaju na izbjegavanju. Kada griješimo djelom, to znači da smo napravili nešto što znamo da je pogrješno. Grijeh propusta znači da ste dopustili da se dogodi nešto loše, a mogli ste to spriječiti. Pritom se prvi, grijeh djelom, obično smatra težim od potonjega koji je u svojoj biti izbjegavanje. No ja nisam tako siguran u to.
Zamislite osobu koja inzistira na tome da sve u njezinu žibotu bude ispravno. Izbjegava sukobe,
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― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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We in our age are faced with a strange paradox. Never before have we had so much information in bits and pieces flooded upon us by radio and television and satellite, yet never before have we had so little inner certainty about our own being. The more objective truth increases, the more our inner certitude decreases. Our fantastically increased technical power, and each forward step in technology is experienced by many as a new push toward our possible annihilation. Nietzsche was strangely proph
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― The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology
― The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology
