Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
Credinta, oricat de pasionata, de pura, de arzatoare, nu spune absolut nimic despre realitatea existentei lui Dumnezeu
Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
I hate it that she has so insinuated herself into the interstices of my mind that I can never root her out. And most of all, I hate that at the end of my life I feel compelled to ask, “How’d I do, Mama?”.
The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
Someone’s got to do some more research, but I would really like to know: when a CBT therapist really gets distressed, who does he go see?
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.