“Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.”
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“Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.”
“Yet, at the same time, as the Eastern sages also knew, man is a worm and food for worms. This is the paradox: he is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet ho...”
“The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”
“We are gods with anuses.”
“Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to live at all.”
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“the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith”
“Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in...”
“Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awarness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. As awarness calls for types of heroic dedication that his culture no lon...”
“Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.”
“When Norman O. Brown said that Western society since Newton, no matter how scientific or secular it claims to be, is still as “religious” as any other, this is what he meant: “civilized” soc...”
“Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.”
“One chooses slavery because it is safe and meaningful; then one loses the meaning of it, but fears to move out of it. One has literally died to life but must remain physically in this world.”