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“In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“The liberal story instructs me to seek freedom to express and realise myself. But both the ‘self’ and freedom are mythological chimeras borrowed from the fairy tales of ancient times. Liberalism has a particularly confused notion of ‘free will’. Humans obviously have a will, they have desires, and they are sometimes free to fulfil their desires. If by ‘free will’ you mean the freedom to do what you desire – then yes, humans have free will. But if by ‘free will’ you mean the freedom to choose what to desire – then no, humans have no free will.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“For the task of the psychotherapist is to bring about a reconciliation between individual feeling and social norms without, however, sacrificing the integrity of the individual.”
― Alan W. Watts, Psychotherapy East and West

“I never think about The Past but sometimes The Past thinks about me and sits down ever so lightly on my face—”
― Leonard Cohen, The Flame: Poems, Notebooks, Lyrics, Drawings