Category: philosophy
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Loving the Truth
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it. — George Santayana The poetic psychiatrist, R. D. Laing, asserted: “There is a lot of suffering in life. But the only suffering that can be avoided is the suffering that results from trying to avoid suffering.” We…
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Determinism and Free Will
The human nervous system has become so complex, that it is able to affect its own states, making it functionally independent of its genetic blueprint, and of the objective environment. A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening "outside" just by changing the contents of consciousness. — Csikszentmihalyi Volition [also…
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For the Delight of Heaven
You should have a message in each pocket, so that you can read one or the other, according to your needs. In the right pocket are the words: “I am but dust and ashes” in the left are words: “For my sake was the universe was created." — 19th century Hasidic adage What is the truth…