There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose
("Man's Search for Meaning")
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The crowning experience of all, ... is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear any more except his God.Viktor E. Frankl
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaninglessness in rational terms.
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What is to give light must endure burning.
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And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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