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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom bring...more

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Life as we find it is too hard for us it entails too much pain too many disappointments impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

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We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior to be the purpose and intention of their lives. Wh...more

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The goal of all life is death.

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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

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...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-estimation of the magic of words and the belief that r...more

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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

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At this point it may be objected: well, then, if even the crabbed sceptics admit that the statements of religion cannot be confuted by reason, why sho...more

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Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and em...more