“Life is a loan, and we have to return it to the universe.”
― Prisms: Reflections on This Journey We Call Life
― Prisms: Reflections on This Journey We Call Life
“The immature psyche needs confirmation to be secure, a cloning of interests and sensibilities, and there is no surer path to staying immature and undeveloped than seeking agreement in all things.”
― Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up
― Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up
“Go into the fear, deal with it, lest you live a fugitive life.”
― Prisms: Reflections on This Journey We Call Life
― Prisms: Reflections on This Journey We Call Life
“Man is a reed, the weakest of nature, but he is a thinking reed. It is not necessary that the entire universe arm itself to crush: a vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than what kills him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage that the universe has over him, the universe knows nothing of this.”
― Prisms: Reflections on This Journey We Call Life
― Prisms: Reflections on This Journey We Call Life
“The Christians conjured hell, which generated salvation anxiety, then presented their game as the only way to escape it. Similarly, New Left activists threaten hell by radically rewriting the terms by which accusations of bigotry can be made, lowering the bar such that mere whiteness or masculinity are signs of guilt. Having generated salvation anxiety, they present their movement as the sole available remedy. Hell’s threat can only be escaped with conspicuous, zealous and highly correct play.”
― The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It
― The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It
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