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“Beyond a given point man is not helped by more “knowing,” but only by living and doing in a partly self-forgetful way. As Goethe put it, we must plunge into experience and then reflect on the meaning of it. All reflection and no plunging drives us mad; all plunging and no reflection, and we are brutes.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“Man must always imagine and believe in a "second" reality or a better world than the one that is given him by nature.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“If you have a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can’t you do this in 6 months?”
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“Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
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