“If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us… know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience.”

Chapters: 21. Following Empty Heart

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“Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true.”

Chapters: 65. Simplicity: the Hidden Power of Goodness

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“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”

Chapters: 18. The Sick Society

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“The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”

Chapters: 71. Sick of Sickness

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“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.”

Chapters: 58. Goals Without Means
38. Fruit Over Flowers

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