

“Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.”
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“Something as trivial as a little gift of candy to medical residents improves the speed and accuracy of their diagnoses. In general, positive emotion enables us to broaden our understanding of what confronts us. This”
― The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
― The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

“Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows 'what he wants,' while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve. It is a task we frantically try to avoid by accepting ready-made goals as though they were our own.”
― Escape from Freedom
― Escape from Freedom

“Metamodernism lies between modernism and postmodernism while exerting an enthusiastic irony, a hopeful melancholy, a knowledgeable naivet茅, an apathetic empathy, a plural unity, and an ambiguous purity.”
― The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World
― The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World

“Man鈥檚 happiness today consists in 鈥渉aving fun.鈥 Having fun lies in the satisfaction of consuming and 鈥渢aking in鈥 commodities, sights, food, drinks, cigarettes, people, lectures, books, movies鈥攁ll are consumed, swallowed. The world is one great object for our appetite, a big apple, a big bottle, a big breast; we are the sucklers, the eternally expectant ones, the hopeful ones鈥攁nd the eternally disappointed ones.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
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