Civilization and Its Discontents
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Started reading August 19, 2021
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious things in life.
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At its height, the state of being in love threatens to obliterate the boundaries between ego and object.
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the judgments of value made by mankind are immediately determined by their desires for happiness: in other words, that those judgments are attempts to prop up their illusions with arguments.