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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You...

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An eminent philosopher among my friends, who can dignify even your ugly furniture by lifting it into...

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The modern age, with its growing world-alienation, has led to a situation where man, wherever he goe...

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Thus he has two standpoints from which he can consider himself...: first, as belonging to the world ...

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Immanuel KantGroundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The sel...

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Rudolf CarnapThe Logical Structure of the World and Pseudoproblems in Philosophy

Hence it is a superficial view (which presumably has never seen a person in despair, not even one’s ...

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The embodiment of his mystic precepts, he appeared at any given moment to be on the verge of an amaz...

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Thomas LigottiSongs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Polarities of the 'authentic' vs. the 'inauthentic' are easily discernible in recreational modes. Th...

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The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappo...

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Walker PercyLost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

Once I knew, then I forgot. It was as if I had fallen asleep in a field only to discover at waking t...

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